Voices of the American West Volume 1 The Indian interviews of Eli S Ricker 1903 1919 First Edition by Eli Seavey Ricker, Richard Jensen ISBN 978-0803239494 0803239491

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ISBN 10:   0803239491

ISBN 13: 978-0803239494

Author: Eli Seavey Ricker,  Richard E. Jensen

The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle, the Grattan incident, and other events and personages of the Old West are finally made widely available in this long-awaited volume.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1843–1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to write a multi-volume series about its last days. Among the many individuals he interviewed were American Indians, mostly Sioux, who spoke extensively about a range of subjects, some with the help of an interpreter. For years Ricker traveled across the northern Plains, determinedly gathering information on and off reservations, in winter and in summer. Judge Ricker never wrote his book, but his interviews are priceless sources of information about the Old West that offer more balanced perspectives on events than were accepted at the time.

Richard E. Jensen brings together all of Ricker’s interviews with American Indians, annotating the conversations and offering an extensive introduction that sets forth important information about Ricker, his research, and the editorial methodology guiding the present volume.

Table of contents: 

CHAPTER ONE: THE GARNETT AND WELLS INTERVIEWS

1. William Garnett

   • Biography

   • Treaties and Treaty Commissions

   • Killing of Frank Appleton

   • The Surround of Red Cloud and Red Leaf

   • Mackenzie-Dull Knife Fight

   • Indian Scouts

   • Crazy Horse

   • Sun Dances

   • Pine Ridge Reservation

   • Wounded Knee

   • Frank Grouard

   • Yellow Bear–John Richard Jr. Episode

   • Flagpole at Red Cloud Agency

2. Philip F. Wells

   • Biography

   • Sioux Customs, Language and Religion

   • Little Big Horn

   • The Messiah / Ghost Dance

   • Wounded Knee

   • Drexel Mission Fight

   • Agents and Agency Service

   • Sioux Tribes and Bands

   • Minnesota War

CHAPTER TWO: THE GHOST DANCE AND WOUNDED KNEE

1. Short Bull – The Messiah, Ghost Dance

2. Joseph Horn Cloud – Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Casualties

3. Dewey Beard – Wounded Knee

4. Louis Mousseau – Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation

5. William Palmer – Wounded Knee

6. George Little Wound – Wounded Knee

7. Ed Janis – Wounded Knee Fatalities

8. William Prano – Wounded Knee Fatalities, Pine Ridge Reservation

9. Paddy Starr – Wounded Knee and Burials

10. Frank Feather – Wounded Knee Fatalities

11. Man Above – Wounded Knee, Indian Scouts

12. Standing Soldier – Wounded Knee, Indian Scouts, Crazy Horse

13. Creighton Yankton – Wounded Knee Hearsay

14. William Denver McGaa – Pine Ridge Reservation, Wounded Knee, Indian Scouts

15. James Garvie – Poncas, Wounded Knee, Winnebagos, Santees

16. John Shangrau – Reynolds’s Powder River Campaign, Wounded Knee, Cheyenne Outbreak, Crazy Horse

CHAPTER THREE: THE OLD WEST – INDIANS AND INDIAN FIGHTS

1. Chipps – Crazy Horse

2. American Horse – Grattan Fight, Fetterman Fight, Red Cloud, Biography, Crazy Horse

3. Charles A. Eastman – S. D. Hinman, Crazy Horse

4. Mrs. Richard Stirk – Biography, Crazy Horse, Saunders Escape on Cache la Poudre

5. Louie Bordeaux – James Bordeaux, Frank Grouard, Crazy Horse, Pine Ridge Reservation

6. Respects Nothing – Little Bighorn

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