A Life, Not a Battle
Overview
History remembers one day. Two Feathers had to live an entire life.
As a young Northern Cheyenne man on the northern plains, Two Feathers measures himself not by fame but by usefulness-to his family, his horses, his people, and the work that must be done.
Then June 25, 1876 turns an ordinary morning along the Greasy Grass into the day history will never stop asking about.
Two Feathers fights on foot amid smoke, dust, horses, and confusion. He searches for his brother Sun Bear among the living and the dead. He survives a battle that later generations will reduce to famous names, clean maps, and arguments about what happened where.
But survival is only the beginning.
The years that follow bring hunger, changing country, family, reservation life, grief, and the stubborn work of remaining himself in a world increasingly determined to count, contain, rename, and record his people.
Decades later, physician and historian Thomas B. Marquis comes asking questions about the battle. Two Feathers must decide what memory can honestly give him-and what history has no right to invent.
Grounded in historical research and inspired by the documented life of Northern Cheyenne warrior Two Feathers, Two Feathers is a biographical historical novel about the difference between the moment history remembers and the life a man actually lived.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798171506636
- ISBN-10: 9798171506636
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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