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Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919
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by Eli S. Ricker, Richard E. Jensen (Editor), Richard E. Jensen (Introduction)
Eli S. Ricker
Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919
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by Eli S. Ricker, Richard E. Jensen (Editor), Richard E. Jensen (Introduction)
Eli S. Ricker
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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.
Eli S. Ricker (1843-1926) served with the 102nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. After the war, he began farming but was eventually admitted to the bar and moved to Dawes County, Nebraska, to set up his law practice. There, he served for three terms as a county judge and then worked as a newspaper man at the Chadron Times. Ricker devoted his retirement to research for a book that was to be titled The Final Conflict between the Red Man and the Pale Face, which was never written as Ricker became so engrossed in his research. Upon his death, Ricker's notebooks, data, and correspondence were donated to the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Richard E. Jensen is retired from the Nebraska State Historical Society, where he was senior research anthropologist. His most recent books are Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the Nineteenth-Century Central Plains (2009) and The Pawnee Mission Letters, 1834-1851 (2010).
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.
Eli S. Ricker (1843-1926) served with the 102nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. After the war, he began farming but was eventually admitted to the bar and moved to Dawes County, Nebraska, to set up his law practice. There, he served for three terms as a county judge and then worked as a newspaper man at the Chadron Times. Ricker devoted his retirement to research for a book that was to be titled The Final Conflict between the Red Man and the Pale Face, which was never written as Ricker became so engrossed in his research. Upon his death, Ricker's notebooks, data, and correspondence were donated to the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Richard E. Jensen is retired from the Nebraska State Historical Society, where he was senior research anthropologist. His most recent books are Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the Nineteenth-Century Central Plains (2009) and The Pawnee Mission Letters, 1834-1851 (2010).
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780803239968 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | UNP - Bison Books |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2012 |
| Pages: | 544 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d) |
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map: The West of Eli S. Ricker
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 Bighorn, 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 Peano. 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
7. Moses Flying Hawk. Little Bighorn, Sibley Scout
8. Standing Bear. Little Bighorn
9. Nick Ruleau. Little Bighorn, Fetterman fight
10. Iron Hawk. Christian Indians, Little Bighorn
11. Frank S. Shively. Crow Indian customs, Little Bighorn, Indians and priests, Chief Blackfoot, Indian scouts at Little Bighorn
12. Two Moons. Battles at Tongue River, Rosebud, and Little Bighorn
13. Henry Twist. Black Hills treaty
14. Charles Turning Hawk. Black Hills treaty
15. George Sword. Biography, Crazy Horse, Wagon Box fight
16. Frank Salaway. Biography, Crazy Horse, Grattan fight, Ash Hollow fight, 1865 Horse Creek fight, Pine Ridge Reservation
17. Red Cloud and Clarence Three Stars. Treaties, Black Hills, Grattan fight, Tribal government and policies, Lightning Creek incident, Allotments in severalty
18. Alfred N. Coe. Dakota ministry, Two Sticks case
19. Jacob White Eye. Haircuts at Pine Ridge
20. Eagle Elk. Pine Ridge Reservation
21. Little Wolf. Cheyenne Indians
22. Peter Shangrau. Ute Indians, 1906
23. Maggie Palmer. Janis family
24. Mrs. Nicholas Janis. Nicholas Janis
25. Mrs. Julia Bradford. Henry C. Clifford
26. Nettie Elizabeth Goings. Goings family, Frank Grouard
27. William Girton. Bull Bear/Red Cloud
28. William Young. Henry Young
29. Mrs. Charles C. Clifford. Biography, Saunders escape on Cache la Poudre
30. Amos Ross. Biography, Pine Ridge ministry
Appendix A: Forts
Appendix B: Agencies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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