Song of Dewey Beard : Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn /

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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 fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burnham, Philip
Other Authors: Beard, Dewey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dakota Indians.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Dakota (Indiens) > Dakota du Sud > Biographies.
Bataille de Little Bighorn, Mont., 1876 > Biographies.
Guerre des Black Hills, 1876-1877.
Bataille de Wounded Knee, Dak. du S., 1890 > Biographies.
Dakota (Indiens) > Guerres, 1890-1891.
Dakota Indians > South Dakota > Biography.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Biography.
Black Hills War, 1876-1877.
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890 > Biography.
Dakota Indians > Wars, 1890-1891.
South Dakota.
Montana.
Dakota du Sud > Biographies.
South Dakota > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 "old West" for the tourists.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780803269408

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