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Loading... From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Wasby Charles W. Allen
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Allen describes his experiences at Red Cloud Agency, in Deadwood during the Black Hills Gold Rush, the Wounded Knee Massacre, and other adventures in South Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming and Nebraska. no reviews | add a review
The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942) took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally turbulent era in its history. He was at the Red Cloud Agency when Red Cloud attempted to prevent the raising of the American flag and the Lakota nearly took over the agency. Allen also visited Deadwood at the height of the Black Hills gold rush, helped build the first government agency on the Pine Ridge reservation, and reported on the Lakota Ghost Dance. Allen happened to be walking through the Indian camp at Wounded Knee when shots rang out on December 29, 1890, and his is arguably the best of all the eyewitness accounts of that tragedy. This is Allen's previously unpublished vivid account of the years he described as "the most exciting chapter of my life." As much the chronicle of the passing of an era as a personal narrative, its simple, direct, and often moving prose captures the injustices, gritty details, and relentless energy of a period of dramatic change in the West. No library descriptions found. |
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