Research Catalog

Title

Memoirs of a White Crow Indian (Thomas H. Leforge) as told by Thomas B. Marquis. With an introd. by Joseph Medicine Crow and Herman J. Viola.

Author

Leforge, Thomas H., 1850-1931

Publication

Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1974, c1928]

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Details

Additional Authors

Marquis, Thomas Bailey, 1869-1935

Description

xx, 356 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Publisher description: Thomas H. Leforge was "born an Ohio American" and chose to "die a Crow Indian American." His association with his adopted tribe spanned some of the most eventful years of its history--from the Indian Wars to the reservation period-and as interpreter, agency employee, chief of Crow scouts for the 1876 campaign (he was with Terry at the Little Big Horn), bona fide Crow "wolf," and husband of a Crow woman, he was usually in the midst of the action. His story, first published in 1928, remains a remarkably accurate source of historical and ethnological information on this relatively little known tribe.

Subject

• Leforge, Thomas H., 1850-1931
• 1866-1895
• Crow Indians
• Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895

Note

• "A Bison book."
• Reprint of the ed. published by Century Co., New York.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The emigration westward -- Bad Indians and bad white men -- At the first Crow agency -- On the Yellowstone in the earliest seventies -- The agency at Absaroka -- Life in the lodges of the Crows -- Old Crow Indian customs and beliefs -- When Gibbon and Custer came in 1876 -- Scouting again after Sitting Bull's Sioux -- Old Fort Custer on the Bighorn -- White-man life as a mining man -- At home again with the Crows.

ISBN

0803258003

LCCN

^^^74006222^

OCLC

• 874127
• SCSB-10891791

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library