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Johnson Willis Fletcher <1857-1931.> |
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Life of Sitting Bull : History of the Indian War of 1890-91 / / W. Fletcher Johnson |
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Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (545 p.) |
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Dakota Indians - Wars, 1890-1891 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"As published in 1891." |
Originally published: Life of Sitting Bull and history of the Indian War. [Philadelphia]: Edgewood, 1891. |
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Intro -- LIFE OF SITTING BULL -- PREFACE. -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. -- SITTING BULL -- MAP OF THE BAD LANDS AND SCENE OF INDIAN WAR -- HORSE RACING -- CROW FOOT, SON OF SITTING BULL -- AT HIS INCANTATIONS -- A GROUP OF SIOUX CHIEFS -- HOSTILES ATTACKING FRIENDLIES -- MAJOR-GENERAL SCHOFIELD, U. S. A. -- INDIAN PICTURE OF THE CUSTER FIGHT - THE CAVALRYMEN -- SAME - THE INDIANS -- CUSTER'S LAST BATTLE -- TEPEE OF SITTING BULL -- THE GHOST DANCE -- GENERAL NELSON A. MILES -- DEATH OF SITTING BULL -- STANDING HOLLY -- WILD GRASS DANCE -- STANDING BUFFALO -- JOHNSON - THE ALLEGED MESSIAH -- THE INDIAN MESSIAH CRAZE -- CHIEF BIG JOSEPH -- TEPEE OF HEAD SIOUX WARRIOR AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY -- THE PINE RIDGE AGENCY -- OFFICERS IN THE FIELD AT FORT KEOGH -- RATIONS ISSUED AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY -- RED CLOUD -- INTERIOR OF RED CLOUD' S HOUSE -- CHIEF JOHN GRASS -- BIG MEDICINE MAN -- WHITE BEAVER AND BUFFALO BILL -- INTERIOR OF TENT OF LIEUT. BROWN AT PINE RIDGE AGEN CY -- THE HANGING OF MOUNTAIN MIKE -- BUFFALO BILL -- WHITE THUNDER -- WHITE EAGLE -- STANDING BEAR -- WHITE GHOST -- DOG DANCE OF THE SIOUX -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY. -- A Unique History in Pictures -- The Chief's Own Story of His Bloody and Lawless Career -- Killing Enemies and Stealing Mules -- Many Different Stories of His Life -- Was He a West Point |
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Graduate? -- Startling Theory of an Army Officer -- CHAPTER II. -- MEDICINE MAN AND WARRIOR. -- The True Story of Sitting Bull's Life -- Son of a Rich Chief -- A Buffalo Hunter at Ten Years Old -- His Three Wives and Nine Children, Includ-ing Twins -- How He Gained Supreme Sway Among the Sioux -- What it is to be a Medicine Man -- CHAPTER III. -- THE SAVAGE IN SOCIETY. -- His Visit to a Camp at Fargo -- Ashamed of His Primitive Garb -- His First Suit of White Man's Clothes. |
A Discomfited Young Clergyman - The Indian at Dinner -- His First Look in a Mirror -- Autograph Selling -- CHAPTER IV. -- THE FOE OF THE WHITE MAN. -- Fort Buford's Ghastly Tragedy -- An Accomplished Cattle Thief -- Contempt for Pale Faces -- Opposing Invasion of His Territory -- The Fort Ellis Episode -- A Pen-and-Ink Sketch of the Savage Chief -- CHAPTER V. -- THE LITTLE BIG HORN. -- Sitting Bull at the Height of His Power -- The Rush for the Black Hills -- Ineffectual Negotiations -- Sitting Bull's Defiant Answer to a Summons -- Preparations for a Great Struggle -- How the Three Divisions of the Army Marched into the Indians' Country -- CHAPTER VI. -- CUSTER'S LAST RALLY. -- Departure of the Cavalry -- March of the Infantry -- First News of the Disaster -- The Rescue -- Story of the Battle -- Reno's Force Rescued Twice -- How Custer Fought to the End -- CHAPTER VII. -- THE DEATH OF CUSTER. -- Two Stories of the Grim Tragedy -- General Terry's Official Report -- The Desperate March to the Relief of Reno -- Narrative of Old Nick Genneiss -- A Picture Record by Little Big Man -- CHAPTER VIII. -- CUSTER. -- The Beau Sabreur of the Army -- Brilliant Services as a Cavalry Officer in Many Battles During the Rebellion -- The Comrade of Phil. Kearney and Phil. Sheridan -- His Work as an Indian Fighter -- A Soldier Who Never Knew What Fear Was, and Who Never Lost a Gun or a Color Until His Last Battle -- CHAPTER IX. -- IN EXILE. -- Unfounded Rumors of Sitting Bull's Death -- His Retreat into Canada -- Visited There by a Government Commission -- His Defiant Refusal to Return Home -- Speeches by the Chiefs -- Sitting Bull's Own Words -- CHAPTER X. -- THE MIGHTY FALLEN. -- Sitting Bull Ruined by His Flight to Canada -- His Followers Starved into Mutiny Against Him -- The Return to Dakota -- The Fate of His Daughter, Sleeping Water. |
A Vain Appeal -- Taken to Fort Randall as a Prisoner of War. -- CHAPTER XI. -- THE LAST CAMPAIGN. -- Sitting Bull Involved in the Messiah Craze -- His Hope of Regaining His Old Position -- Plots and Disaffection -- Visited by a Young Lady Missionary -- Agent McLaughlin's Visit -- The Ghost Dances -- Sitting Bull's Remarkable Proposition -- CHAPTER XII. -- DEATH OF THE GREAT CHIEF. -- General Miles Gave the Word for His Arrest -- Was it Intended to Kill Him, Rather than Take Him Alive? -- Indian Police Led the Way -- The Arrest and Attempted Rescue -- The Fatal Shot -- Another Account of the Tragedy -- Disposition of His Remains -- CHAPTER XIII. -- TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY. -- His Neice's Indignation and Grief -- Senator's Attempt to be Funny over a Tragedy -- "Buffalo Bill's" Tribute -- General Schofield's Views -- "Adirondack" Murray's Eloquent Protest and Rebuke -- Sitting Bull Compared with Webster and with Gladstone -- CHAPTER XIV. -- THE SIOUX NATION. -- Mightiest of all the Native Tribes -- Longfellow's "Minnehaha" -- Subdivisions of the Tribe -- Catlin's Account of Them Half a Century Ago -- Not Drunken, nor Naked, nor Poor -- A More Recent and Less Friendly View -- CHAPTER XV. -- LEGENDS AND CREEDS. -- The Indian Holy Land, the Mountains of the Prairies -- The Sioux Story of the Flood -- Origin of the Red Pipe Stone -- Indian Love of the Mysterious -- Their Ideas of the Future Life -- Their Code of Worldly Ethics Vindicated -- CHAPTER XVI. -- IN PEACE AND WAR. -- The Sioux Language -- An Indian's Sense of |
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Humor -- "Old Hundred," "Come to Jesus," and the Lord's, Prayer in Sioux -- War Paint on the Braves -- A Battle with the Pawnees -- The Value of a Scalp -- Leisurely Interview with a Busy Secretary -- CHAPTER XVII. -- FEASTING AND DANCING. -- Conspicuous Features of Indian Public Life -- A Grand Festival in the Olden Time. |
The Speech of Welcome -- Stewed Dog the Leading Dish -- The Grass Dance of the Two Kettles and its Accompanying Feast of Dog -- Dancing Extraordinary -- The Bear Dance, Beggar's Dance, Scalp Dance and Sun Dance -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- THE GHOST DANCES. -- A Memorable Season in Indian History -- Prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah -- The Ghost Dances Intended to Prepare for His Advent, and to Bring the People into Communication with Him -- Porcupine's Story of the Messiah and His Command for the Dance -- CHAPTER XIX. -- THE INDIAN MESSIAH. -- Sincerity of the Belief in Him -- When and Where He was First Heard of - Porcupine's Visit to Him -- Porcupine's Visit to Him -- What He Said to the Indians -- Bad Record of the "Messiah" -- His Complicity in the White River Massacre -- Another Account of Him -- CHAPTER XX. -- INDIAN WARS. -- A Shameful Record -- A Thousand Dollars Spent for Every Indian in the Country -- The Long Catalogue of Conflicts and Expenses -- Fearful Cost in Life and Limb as Well as Money and National Honor -- CHAPTER XXI. -- THE FIRST SIOUX WAR. -- Provoked by White Men -- Narrative of One Who Was There -- Indescribable Outrages Perpetrated By the Savages Upon Women and Children -- A City of Death -- General Sibley's Campaign -- Sentences of the Ringleaders -- CHAPTER XXII. -- CAUSES OF THE LAST WAR. -- What the Indians Say -- Father Jule's Interview with the Chiefs -- The Census -- Broken Faith and Diminished Supplies -- Letter from American Horse -- The Indians' Stories Confirmed by Government Reports -- CHAPTER XXIII. -- EFFORTS FOR PEACE. -- Mrs. Weldon's Remarkable Mission to the Camp of Sitting Bull -- Her Desire to Confront the Prophet of the Messiah -- Forced to Flee for Safety - Her Views of the Situation - Her Life in Dakota . . . . . . . . 318 -- Her Views of the Situation -- Her Life in Dakota. |
CHAPTER XXIV. -- THE SEAT OF WAR. -- Pine Ridge Reservation and Agency -- The Gardens and the Buildings -- Dr. McGillicudy's Administration -- The Catholic Mission School -- Some Account of the Bad Lands -- A Truly Horrible Region -- CHAPTER XXV. -- LIFE AT PINE RIDGE. -- Experience of the War Correspondents -- Trying to Take a Picture -- The Squaw Dances -- "Have You Got Christ in the Guard House?" -- Fire-Water with a Vengeance -- The Indian Boys -- Married Life -- CHAPTER XXVI. -- INDIANS AND SETTLERS. -- Mixed Civilization at Rushville -- The Cowboy at Home -- Indian Loafers The Cigarette Habit -- "Themdaminjuns" -- Stories of a Veteran Frontiersman -- Unappreciated Architecture -- White Ghost -- Badly Scared -- CHAPTER XXVII. -- RED CLOUD -- A Leader of the Hostile Indians -- His Treacherous Nature -- Romantic Story of His Early Years -- A Mission Teacher's Account of Him -- His Deceitful Words to a Visitor and His Letter to a Friend -- CHAPTER XXVIII. -- THE LEADERS OF THE SIOUX. -- Little Wound and His Lieutenants -- Yellow Bear -- Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses -- Otti, the Shoshone -- High Bear -- American Horse -- John Grass, the Indian Judge -- Gall, the Greatest of the Sioux Warriors and Generals -- Spotted Tail's Eloquent Speech. -- CHAPTER XXIX. -- THE BEGINNING OF WAR. -- Dakota Settlers Panic-Stricken -- General Miles on the Situation -- Pine Ridge Regarded as the Fatal Point -- Rosebud Indians Break Loose -- Troops Hurried to the Scene -- A Coal Mine for a Fort -- A Night's Alarm -- A Much-Scared Saddler -- Governor Mellette's Letter -- CHAPTER XXX. -- FROM BAD TO WORSE. -- An Ominous Thanksgiving -- Scenes at an Issuing |
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of Beef -- "Buffalo Bill" -- Plenty Bear's Report -- Medicine That Was Not Bullet Proof -- An Era of Uncertainty and Lies -- Two Deeds Determined Upon -- CHAPTER XXXI. -- DELAY AND DISASTER. |
Waiting for Something to Turn Up. |
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