Standoff at Standing Rock: The Story of Sitting Bull and James McLaughlin

by Patricia Calvert

Told in alternating chapters, a dual biography tells the story of Sitting Bull---a great Indian chief who fought for his people amidst adversity---and James McLaughlin---a young Indian Agent who would stop at nothing to suppress any signs of unrest and keep the Indians "civilized" at all times.

144 pages, Library Binding

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

"We are all emigrants from the same country — the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken — or are in the process of taking — from that special place."

Patricia Calvert celebrates her birthday on July 22nd. She grew up in the mountains of Montana, in what was "a magic world for any child, one in which lodgepole pines grew like arrows toward a sky that seemed always blue." Even though Ms. Calvert knew she wanted to be a writer when she was ten, it wasn't until her daughters were grown and had moved away from home and she and her husband moved to Minnesota that she concentrated on her writing.

Among her books, The Snowbird and Yesterday's Daughter have both been named to ALA's Best Books for Young Adults list. Glennis, Before and After received a Christopher Award. Betrayed! (Atheneum) appeared in 2002 and Robert E. Peary: To the Top of the World (Benchmark) in 2001. Most recently, Ms. Calvert has been focusing on nonfiction writing, bringing us biographies of Zebulon Pike and Kit Carson, as well as The Ancient Celts.

Reviews

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

A complex and complicated piece of history in a simple, easy to read book.

[Dana * · Rating 5 out of 5]

A story that everyone needs to read and understand. The complexity, and yet simplicity of what wrong was done.