Grant's Betrayal: Power, Corruption, and the Theft of the Black Hills

The controversial story of Ulysses S. Grant’s role in the 1877 seizure of the Black Hills—which the Lakota viewed as sacred land—in response to the humiliating defeat of the U.S. Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

A riveting account of the secret, rapacious conspiracy that led to the theft of the sacred Black Hills, Grant’s Betrayal is set against a backdrop of brazen corruption, Lakota resistance, and Gilded Age greed. This unfamiliar story is about capitalism and fraud at the time of Am...