A Good Day to Die

A HARD WAY TO LIVE
With the ever-growing domination of the encroaching white man, the Plains Indians were fighting desperately to preserve their lands, their sacred traditions, their very existence as a people.

A STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
Sitting Bull wanted peace, but was driven by the white man's treachery to lead his braves into a war that saw one of the U.S. Army's worst defeats at Little Big Horn. Then the great chief was murdered, and an enigmatic new leader promised his people a return to the joys of the old buffalo days. But as a frenzy of ghost dances erupted, the Indian Bureau panicked and the stage was set for the final fight to keep the flickering spark of a proud heritage alive. And as they drew nearer to Wounded Knee Creek, the people of the Plains asked themselves each day if it was indeed...A GOOD DAY TO DIE.

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Thomas Wakefield Blackburn, was an American author, screenwriter and lyricist. His work included various Western novels and television screenplays, as well as the lyrics to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and other songs.

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