Format:
Online-Ressource (490 p)
ISBN:
9780803269361
Content:
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-twen
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 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; About Philip Burnham; Illustrations
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803269415
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803269361
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Song of Dewey Beard : Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
Language:
English
Keywords:
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