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During this time, the Native American rights movement began to flourish. When Sitting Bull joined the Wild West, the event spawned one of the earliest advertising slogans: “Foes in ’76, Friends in ’85.” Cody paid his performers well, and he treated the Indians no differently from white performers. “Thoroughly researched, Deanne Stillman’s account of this period in American history is elucidating as well as entertaining” ( Booklist), complete with little-told details about the two men whose alliance was eased by none other than Annie Oakley. Blood Brothers tells the story of these two iconic figures through their brief but important collaboration, in “a compelling narrative that reads like a novel” ( Orange County Register). It was a great success, and for four months in 1885 the Lakota chief Sitting Bull appeared in the show. Cody-known across the land as Buffalo Bill-conceived of his Wild West show, an “equestrian extravaganza” featuring cowboys and Indians. It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. “Splendid… Blood Brothers eloquently explores the clash of cultures on the Great Plains that initially united the two legends and how this shared experience contributed to the creation of their ironic political alliance.” -Bobby Bridger, Austin Chronicle The little-known but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West-Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull-told through the prism of their collaboration in Cody's Wild West show in 1885. Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction