The Little Big Man Hoax?

In 1992, American Heritage magazine asked historians, artists and novelists to name their favorite American historical novel. The overwhelming winner was Thomas Berger’s 1964 novel, Little Big Man, the story of Jack Crabb, a white man raised by Northern Cheyennes, who spent his life going between the two cultures and witnessed nearly every famous event of the frontier West. In 1996, nearly 30 years after Arthur Penn’s 1970 film had catapulted Berger’s novel into a bestseller, I met