A BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EPIC SCOPE, WHERE WHITE MEN FEAR TO TREAD IS THE RIVETING STORY OF RUSSELL MEANS, THE MOST REVOLU TIONARY INDIAN LEADER OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY. "It's impossible to stop reading [Means's] gripping autobiography.... Few readers will leave the book without feeling profoundly altered by the authenticity of Means's story. It's American history?warts, wounds, and all." ?San Francisco Chronicle Rook Review "Means's tale gives one a visceral understanding of today's Indians, their ancestors, and the many betrayals they have suffered." ?Chicago Tribune "Not since war chiefs such as Geronimo or Crazy Horse has an Indian leader so polarized the American public as Russell Means." ?Dallas Morning News Russell Means is, without doubt, the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread tells the first-hand story of his life so far, in which he has done everything possible to dramatize the Indian desire for self-determination?from storming Mount Rushmore, to seizing Plymouth Rock, to running for president in 1988, to leading a seventy-one-day takeover of Wounded Knee in 1973, for which he is perhaps most famous. An inspirational visionary, Means remains one of the most magnetic voices in America today and his biography takes its place among the enduring works of our greatest leaders. Russell Means, born an Oglala/Lakota in 1939, was raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near the Black Hills, and then in Vallejo, California. Now a grandfather with twenty-two grandchildren, Means divides his time between Chinle, Navajo Nation, Arizona, and Porcupine, South Dakota. Marvin J. Wolf is an award-winning writer and member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He lives in Los Angeles.