Description: The Fighting Cheyennes (1915), by George Bird Grinnell, describes the battles fought by the Cheyennes, a Native American people originally from what is now Minnesota.
Brief description: GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL (1849-1938), was an influential American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands, he became a conservationist and student of Native American Life. Grinnell wrote many books, of which his best known are The Fighting Cheyennes, The Cheyenne Indians, and When Buffalo Ran.