Adams, Alexander B., Sitting Bull: An Epic of the Plains, Putnam's Sons, 1973.

Adams's popular biography of the Sioux chief explores the complex relationships of Sitting Bull and his contemporaries, such as Crazy Horse, Buffalo Bill, Spotted Tail, and General Custer.

Brown, Dee Alexander, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970.

Brown's book was a breakthrough in historical interpretation at the time that it was published. Using primary sources, the author showed white Americans the Indian side of what happened in the late 1800s.

Cody, William Frederick, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody), Cosmopolitan Book, 1920.

Buffalo Bill revised his autobiography until his death in 1917. The story of his life reads like a novel in some parts, with dialogue and action. Buffalo Bill's romanticized interpretation of the events of his life are reminiscent of...