In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli
S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the
occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth
century. In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old
West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular
consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1842-1926) began interviewing those
who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to write a multivolume
series about its last days, centering on the conflicts between
Natives and outsiders. For years Ricker traveled across the
northern Plains, 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 that time and
place, and they offer more balanced perspectives on events than
were accepted at the time. Richard E. Jensen brings together all of
Ricker's interviews with those men and women who came to the
American West from elsewhere-settlers, homesteaders, and veterans.
These interviews shed light on such key events as the massacre at
Wounded Knee, the Little Bighorn battle, Beecher Island, Lightning
Creek, the Mormon cow incident, and the Washita massacre. Also of
interest are glimpses of everyday life at different agencies,
including Pine Ridge, Yellow Medicine, and Fort Sill School; brief
though revealing memoirs; and snapshots of cattle drives, conflicts
with Natives, and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
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