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Voices of the American West, Volume 1 - The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 (Hardcover)
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Voices of the American West, Volume 1 - The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 (Hardcover)
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The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker
with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little
Big Horn battle, the Grattan incident, and other events and
personages of the Old West are finally made widely available in
this long-awaited volume. In the first decade of the twentieth
century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and
romanticized in popular consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1843-1926)
began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping
to write a multi-volume series about its last days. Among the many
individuals he interviewed were American Indians, mostly Sioux, who
spoke extensively about a range of subjects, some with the help of
an interpreter. For years Ricker traveled across the northern
Plains, determinedly gathering information on and off reservations,
in winter and in summer. Judge Ricker never wrote his book, but his
interviews are priceless sources of information about the Old West
that offer more balanced perspectives on events than were accepted
at the time. Richard E. Jensen brings together all of Ricker's
interviews with American Indians, annotating the conversations and
offering an extensive introduction that sets forth important
information about Ricker, his research, and the editorial
methodology guiding the present volume. Richard E. Jensen retired
as a senior research anthropologist at the Nebraska State
Historical Society. He is the editor of Charles Allen's From Fort
Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was and Rolf Johnson's
Happy As a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1876-1880, both
available in Bison Books editions. Also available from the
University of Nebraska Press: Voices of the American West, Volume
2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919.
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