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HIS History & Biographies --- history and biographies --- Pioneers --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Biography --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- Biography. --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life

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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.--

Indians of North America --- Historiography. --- Pioneers --- Ricker, Eli Seavey, --- Relations with Indians. --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life

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Frontier and pioneer life --- Pioneers --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Beadle, Erastus Flavel, --- Travel --- Omaha Region (Neb.) --- Nebraska --- State of Nebraska --- Nebraska Territory --- Social life and customs

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Land of the Burnt Thigh, first published in 1938,is one of the best accounts. Edith Eudora Ammons and her sister Ida Mary moved to central South Dakota in 1907 to try homesteading near the "Land of the Burnt Thigh"--The Lower Brule INdian Reservation. There these two young women, both in their twenties and "timid as mice," found a community of homesteaders (including several other single women) who were eager to help them succeed at what looked to be impossible: living in a tiny tarpaper shack on 160 waterless, sunbaked, and snowblasted acres for eight months, until they could "prove up" the claim.

Pioneers --- Farm life --- Frontier and pioneer life --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Rural life --- Country life --- Biography. --- History. --- Kohl, Edith Eudora, --- South Dakota --- State of South Dakota --- Dakota Territory --- Social life and customs.

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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.--

Indians of North America --- Historiography. --- Ricker, Eli Seavey, --- Relations with Indians. --- Pioneers --- European Americans --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History. --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Ethnology --- Europeans --- White people --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- History