Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 - Hardcover

Ricker, Eli S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080323967X ISBN 13: 9780803239678

Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2005

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In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.

 

In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1842–1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to write a multivolume series about its last days, centering on the conflicts between Natives and outsiders. For years Ricker traveled across the northern Plains, 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 that time and place, and they offer more balanced perspectives on events than were accepted at the time.

 

Richard E. Jensen brings together all of Ricker’s interviews with those men and women who came to the American West from elsewhere—settlers, homesteaders, and veterans. These interviews shed light on such key events as the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Little Bighorn battle, Beecher Island, Lightning Creek, the Mormon cow incident, and the Washita massacre. Also of interest are glimpses of everyday life at different agencies, including Pine Ridge, Yellow Medicine, and Fort Sill School; brief though revealing memoirs; and snapshots of cattle drives, conflicts with Natives, and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Richard E. Jensen retired as a senior research anthropologist at the Nebraska State Historical Society. He is the editor of Charles Allen’s From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was and Rolf Johnson’s Happy As a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1876-1880, both available in Bison Books editions.

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Voices of the American West, Volume 2

The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919By Eli S. Ricker

University of Nebraska Press

Copyright © 2005 University of Nebraska Press
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ISBN: 978-0-8032-3967-8

Contents

List of Illustrations.............................................................................................................................................................ixIntroduction......................................................................................................................................................................xiMap: The West of Eli S. Ricker....................................................................................................................................................xivChapter One: Wounded Knee.........................................................................................................................................................11. Peter McFarland. Wounded Knee..................................................................................................................................................12. Charles W. Allen. Wounded Knee.................................................................................................................................................103. Meded Swigert. Wounded Knee....................................................................................................................................................164. Guy Vaughn. Wounded Knee.......................................................................................................................................................215. Francis M. J. Craft. Wounded Knee..............................................................................................................................................226. John W. Butler. Wounded Knee...................................................................................................................................................237. James R. Walker. Wounded Knee..................................................................................................................................................248. George E. Bartlett. Biography, Wounded Knee....................................................................................................................................279. George A. Stannard. Wounded Knee...............................................................................................................................................3810. Joseph Kocer. Wounded Knee....................................................................................................................................................4011. W. F. Clark. Wounded Knee.....................................................................................................................................................4312. E. C. Swigert. Wounded Knee...................................................................................................................................................4413. W. A. Birdsall. Wounded Knee..................................................................................................................................................4514. Cornelius A. Craven. Wounded Knee.............................................................................................................................................4815. James White. Wounded Knee.....................................................................................................................................................5016. John H. Dixon. Wounded Knee...................................................................................................................................................5117. T. L. Williams. Wounded Knee..................................................................................................................................................5218. W. A. Ballou. Wounded Knee....................................................................................................................................................5319. Elbert Mead. Wounded Knee.....................................................................................................................................................5520. Eli S. Ricker. Wounded Knee...................................................................................................................................................55Chapter Two: Agents and Agencies..................................................................................................................................................631. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Keith. Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge agents......................................................................................................................632. Robert O. Pugh. Pine Ridge agents, Ghost Dance, Sioux Customs..................................................................................................................673. H. A. Mossman. Pine Ridge agents...............................................................................................................................................744. A. F. Johnson. Pine Ridge missions.............................................................................................................................................755. William J. Cleveland. Sioux missions...........................................................................................................................................766. Edmund Thickstun. Sioux customs, Indian-white relations........................................................................................................................787. John R. Brennan. Pine Ridge reservation........................................................................................................................................818. George Stover. Biography, Frank Grouard, Pine Ridge Reservation, Pine Ridge agents.............................................................................................829. John B. Sanborn. Sioux reservation boundaries..................................................................................................................................8810. Ollufine Nelson. Yellow Medicine Agency.......................................................................................................................................8911. Peter B. Nelson. American Horse, Yellow Medicine Agency.......................................................................................................................9312. Mabel M. Dawson. Fort Sill Indian School, Geronimo............................................................................................................................100Chapter Three: Little Bighorn.....................................................................................................................................................1151. A. F. Ward. Little Bighorn.....................................................................................................................................................1152. Charles Clifford. Little Bighorn, Yellow Horse's account.......................................................................................................................1233. Edward H. Allison. Little Bighorn, Lieutenant Harrington's death, Gall.........................................................................................................1274. Edward S. Godfrey. Little...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080323967X
• ISBN 13: 9780803239678
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 470
• Herausgeber: Jensen Richard E.
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