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Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero

Written by: Devon A. Mihesuah
Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
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Publisher's Summary

Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of “Ned” Christie’s life. Now, in a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah offers a far more accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived.

In 1887, Deputy US Marshal Dan Maples was shot and killed in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. As Mihesuah recounts in unsurpassed detail, any of the criminals in the vicinity at the time could have committed the crime. Yet the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, focused on Christie, a Cherokee Nation councilman and adviser to the tribal chief. Christie evaded capture for five years. His life ended when a posse dynamited his home - knowing he was inside - and shot him as he emerged from the burning building. Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie’s life possible. Yet the author admits that for all this information, we may never know the full story, because Christie’s own voice is largely missing from the written record.

The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

“This book will be a refreshing read for those already familiar with Christie's life, and all will find it an intriguing story well told.” (Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., Editor of The Fus Fixico Letters)

“Mihesuah's dedication to research and thoughtful writing leave no doubt that her telling of Ned Christie's story will last long into the future.” (Roy Hamilton, Historian for the Cherokee Nation)

©2018 University of Oklahoma Press (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
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