Research Catalog

Title

The red record of the Sioux. Life of Sitting Bull and history of the Indian war of 1890-91 ... story of the Sioux nation; their manners and customs, ghost dances and Messiah craze ... By W. Fletcher Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931

Publication

[Philadelphia] Edgewood publishing company [c1891]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890

Description

587 p. illus.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

North American Indian thought and culture

Alternative Title

• Life story of Sitting Bull and history of the Indian War of 1890-91
• Story of the Sioux nation
• Sitting Bull and the Indian war

Subject

• Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890
• Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
• Dakota Indians > Wars
• Dakota Indians
• Sioux Nation

Genre/Form

• Cloth case bindings.
• Illustrated case bindings.
• Illustrated endpapers.
• Bookplates.
• Blocking (surface marking)
• Gilding for bookbinding processes and techniques.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Autobiography -- Medicine man and warrior -- The savage in society -- The foe of the White man -- The Little Big Horn -- Custer's last rally -- The death of Custer -- Custer -- In exile -- The mighty fallen -- The last campaign -- Death of the great chief -- Tributes to his memory -- The Sioux nation -- Legends and creeds -- In peace and war -- Feasting and dancing -- The Ghost dances -- The Indian messiah -- Indian wars -- The first Sioux war -- Causes of the last war -- Efforts for peace -- The seat of war -- Life at Pine Ridge -- Indians and settlers -- Red Cloud -- The leaders of the Sioux -- The beginning of war -- catastrophe -- Father Craft and his work -- After the battle -- Doubt and fear -- In at last -- Who shall be the victim? -- The Indian in Congress -- The Indian Bureau -- Documents in the case -- Indian education -- What of the future.

LCCN

^^^02016839^

OCLC

• 1661248
• SCSB-11835641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library