Land of the Burnt Thigh tells the story of two sisters from a comfortable family in the Eastern United States, braving great perils to settle in the West. This

'Land of the Burnt Thigh' is a story about the life of the author and her sister. It is an incredible tale of two brave sisters who venture into the wilds of So

A passage from the book... At sunset we came up out of the draw to the crest of the ridge. Perched on the high seat of the old spring wagon, we looked into a de

The Sicangu (burnt thighs) received their name when some of the Lakota peoples' legs were burned in a great prairie fire. The French later named them Brule, and

A sequel to "Land of the Burnt Thigh," by Edith Eudora Ammons, "The Sodbreakers" is a previously unpublished original manuscript written by Edith Ammons Kohl an