The astonishing reminiscences of an ancient and immodest Native American frontiersman form a panoramic enlargement of the way of life in the Old West. "A seminal event in the most significant cultural and literary trend of the 1960s... Few creative works of post-Civil War America have had as much of the fibre and blood of national experience in them" Nation "One of the best novels of the decade and the best novel ever about the American West" --New York Times