Jack Crabb, a white boy taken captive by the Cheyenne and raised by them, and who spent his life walking between the Euro-American and Native American worlds, returns to continue telling his remarkable story. The supposed sole white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, quite the story in and of itself, and now 110 years old as he tells his story, Jack happened to know most of the major historical figures of the Old West, and was present at many of its major historical events. His employment with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show also takes him to Europe, where he meets Queen Victoria and becomes pals with the Prince of Wales. He says he wants to tell the story of the West as he saw it with his own eyes, without an axe to grind. In the original book, he says - -not nearly as nicely --"you can believe me or you can go to hell!"Well, I am inclined to believe him, or at least the words Thomas Berger put I his mouth. Jack is a wonderful, likeable character. His tales are vivid and honest. The reader also gets a grand survey of Old West history -- in all its glory and tragedy --from the 1870s to the 1890s, when the frontier was considered closed, and the American West, and all that had made it wild, had been subdued by civilization.The penultimate chapter has Jack at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, where the cabin in which Sitting Bull lived and was murdered had been disassembled , moved, and reassembled, as tourist attraction.