Black Hills Nuggets
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : South Dakota
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : South Dakota
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Author : Steven T. Mitchell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1456839470
Author : Kingsley M. Bray
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806183748
Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse’s contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse’s inner and public life. Bray places Crazy Horse within the rich context of the nineteenth-century Lakota world. He reassesses the war chief’s achievements in numerous battles and retraces the tragic sequence of misunderstandings, betrayals, and misjudgments that led to his death. Bray also explores the private tragedies that marred Crazy Horse’s childhood and the network of relationships that shaped his adult life. To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.
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Page : 990 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : Cleophas Cisney O'Harra
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Mines and mineral resources
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 1900
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Author : Jack Crawford
Publisher : SDSHS Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0985281782
In 1875, a young man from Pennsylvania known as Captain Jack joined the Dodge Expedition into the Black Hills of Dakota Territory, penning letters to the Omaha Daily Bee during that time and for six months in 1876. John Wallace Crawford, aka Captain Jack, wrote a vibrant account of this fascinating time in the American West. His correspondence featured unusual and intriguing details about the relative merits of the gulches, the vagaries and difficulties of travel in the region, the art of survival in what was essentially wilderness, the hardships of inclement weather, trouble with outlaws, and interactions with American Indians. Award-winning historian Paul L. Hedren has compiled these almost unknown letters, writing an introduction and essays, which result in a treasure trove of hitherto hidden primary documents as well as a ripping yarn in the traditions of the old West. Book jacket.
Author : Robert Lee
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803279612
Fort Meade was the home of the famous Seventh Cavalry after its ignominious defeat in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Troops from Fort Meade played a pivotal role in the events that led to the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890. It was the scene of imprisonment of Ute Indians who made the mistake of interpreting their new citizenship status as freedom from government control. The fort survived the mechanization of the horse cavalry, aided the record-breaking Stratosphere Balloon flight of 1935, and became a training site for the nation’s first airborne troops. Fort Meade existed for sixty-six years, from 1878 to 1944. Robert Lee examines the strategic importance of its location on the northern edge of the Black Hills and the role it played in the settlement of the region, as well as the role played by the citizens of Sturgis in keeping it alive. One of the chief delights of Fort Meade and the Black Hills is a gallery of characters including the unfortunate Major Marcus Reno, the beautiful and fatal Ella Sturgis, and the cigar-smoking Poker Alice Tubbs. They, and events scaled to their larger-than-life size, are part of this long overdue story of Fort Meade.
Author : South Dakota Geological Survey
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Geology
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Author : Annie D. Tallent
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
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