Song of Dewey Beard - 9780803269361

Song of Dewey BeardLast Survivor of the Little Bighorn\nAuthor(s): Philip Burnham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: Bison Books\nISBN-13: 9780803269361, 978-0803269361\nSynopsis\nThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the [url] 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. This long-overdue biography of Dewey Beard (ca. [tel], a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, chronicles a remarkable life that can be traced through major historical events from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century.\n\n Beard was not only a witness to two major events involving the Lakota; he also traveled with William Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Ind.