Philip Burnham

Song of Dewey Beard (eBook, ePUB)

Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The great Native American warriors and their resistance to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic, yet their stories are mostly unknown. This long-overdue biography of Dewey Beard (ca. 1862¿1955), a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, chronicles a remarkable life that can be traced through major historical events from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as "old Dewey Beard," a living relic of the...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803269415
• Artikelnr.: 41459122

Autorenporträt

Philip Burnham is an associate professor of composition at George Mason University and a former reporter for Indian Country Today. He is the author of So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons and Indian Country, God’s Country: Native Americans and the National Parks.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Origins and Family
2. Growing Up
3. Little Bighorn
4. Canada
5. Wounded Knee
6. Cody
7. Fox Belly
8. Pine Ridge
9. Gunnery Range
10. Last Man Standing
11. American Horse Creek
12. The Song of Dewey Beard
Notes
Bibliography
Index