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Remember the wind; a prairie memoir
- Title
- Remember the wind; a prairie memoir [by] William McK. Chapman. With drawings by Douglas Gorsline.
- Author
- Chapman, William McK. (William McKissack), 1905-
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Lippincott [1965]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E97.6.S15 C5 1965 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 239 pages map (on lining papers); 22 cm
- Summary
- A former Time-Life correspondent in Europe, Chapman took his wife and children to Wakpala, South Dakotas to save his young son from dying of asthma. He and his wife took over the nearby St. Elizabeth's school for Indians which was financed by the Episcopal Church. Wakpala was pretty much a collection of shacks and meagre stores and the Sioux population both impoverished and alcoholic. The school itself was something of a disaster, until the Chapmans began rebuilding and equipping it as best they could. This is the story of their three years at St. Elizabeth's and of the homely, often graves incidents which befell them. Chapman spent Promethean labors attempting to garden and reclaim some lands but the land was useless and the wind inexorable...During his latter chapters the author inserts considerable Indian history, about Sitting Bull, Custer, treaties broken by the U.S. government, and the rape of the Sioux by greedy whites... Chapman's writing is not always equal to his story which has some affecting moments.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes an Episcopal hymn in Dakota, with music.
- Contents
- The road to Wakpala -- The quest -- The challenge -- New ways, new faces -- O Zion, haste! -- Things to be learned -- An errend of mercy -- Fire and water -- Prairie springtime -- Comings and goings -- Miss Francis, Sitting Bull and some others -- When you say good-by.
- LCCN
- 65017476
- OCLC
- ocm00544549
- 544549
- SCSB-261032
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library