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Song of Dewey Beard : last survivor of the Little Bighorn / Philip Burnham.
- Title
- Song of Dewey Beard : last survivor of the Little Bighorn / Philip Burnham.
- Author
- Burnham, Philip
- Publication
- Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
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- Additional Authors
- Beard, Dewey
- Description
- xvii, 247 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- The great Native American warriors and their resistance to the United States government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic yet their stories are mostly unknown. Dewey Beard, a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, led a remarkable life that can be traced through major historical events from the late nineteenth into the mid twentieth century. 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. Philip Burnham presents the man behind the legend of Dewey Beard and shows how the life of the last survivor of Little Bighorn provides a glimpse into the survival of Indigenous America.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Beard, Dewey
- Indian Wars (Dakota : 1876)
- Indian Wars (Dakota : 1890-1891)
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Montana : 1876)
- Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota : 1890)
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- 1876 - 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
- Dakota Indians
- Massacre survivors > South Dakota > Biography
- South Dakota > Biography
- Montana
- South Dakota
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Indexed In (note)
- Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (July 1, 2021)
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins and family -- Growing up -- Little Bighorn -- Canada -- Wounded Knee -- Cody -- Fox belly -- Pine Ridge -- Gunnery range -- Last man standing -- American Horse Creek -- The song of Dewey Beard.
- ISBN
- 9780803269361 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803269366 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780803269415 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780803269422 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780803269408 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014017332
- OCLC
- 877370585
- SCSB-11092808
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library