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The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign against the Hostile Dakotas June, 1876, by Orin Grant Libby, The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1920, hardcover, octavo format, 19 illustrations, maps, 209 p.; part of North Dakota Historical Collections, Volume 6. Included with the same book is a portion titled State Historical Parks by the same author. The alphabetical index at the end of the book appears to consider both portions.
The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign against the Hostile Dakotas June, 1876 is considered one of the most important source documents for the study of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand), it is a fascinating account of this seminal event. No scholar of the Little Bighorn conflict omits this book from their bibliography. George Armstrong Custer rode to the Little Bighorn with forty Arikara scouts (among others). Of this group, nine survivors were interviewed in 1912. Their accounts of the battle were carefully translated and then published in 1920.
From inside the book:
"The purpose in publishing this material on the Indian campaign of 1876 is twofold. Merely as a matter of justice to the Arikara Indian scouts their version of the campaign in which they played an important part should have long ago been given to the public. Nearly every other conceivable angle of this memorable campaign has received attention and study. But during the past generation the Arikara scouts, true to their oath of fealty to the government as they understood it, have remained silent as to their own part in those eventful days. The present narrative is designed to make public the real story of the Arikara Indian scouts who served with Terry and under the immediate command of Custer. In August, 1912, the nine survivors of some forty of these scouts met at the home of Bear's Belly on the Fort Berthold Reservation, at Armstrong, and there they related to Judge A. McG. Beede and to the secretary of the State Historical Society the various portions of the narrative that follow. Each of the scouts gave that special portion of the whole with which he was most familiar. The narrators were very scrupulous to confine themselves to just that portion of the common experience to which they were eye witnesses."
CONTENTS
Historical, Introduction
Narrative Of The Arikara
Sitting Bear's Story
Story of the First Enlistment
The Narrative as continued by Soldier
The Enlistment as told by Young Hawk
The Second Enlistment
Red Bear's Story
Boy Chief's Story of His Enlistment
Account of an Interview with Custer
Red Star's Story of the March
Story of how the Mail was brought
Continuation of Red Star's Story
Young Hawk's Story
Red Star's Story, continued
Red Star's Story of Special Scout Work
Narrative of Young Hawk
Supplementary Story by Soldier
Continuation by Red Star, Boy Chief, and Strikes Two
Red Star's Additional Interview
Supplementary Story by Red Bear
Later Story by Running Wolf
Later Story of Little Sioux
Later Story of Goes-Ahead
Appendix
Expedition To The Black Hills
Gerard's Story Of The Custer Fight
Biographies
Soldier
Strikes Two
Young Hawk
Red Star
Red Bear
One Feather
Running Wolf
Goes Ahead, Crow Scout
James Coleman
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The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign against the Hostile Dakotas June, 1876 is considered one of the most important source documents for the study of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand), it is a fascinating account of this seminal event. No scholar of the Little Bighorn conflict omits this book from their bibliography. George Armstrong Custer rode to the Little Bighorn with forty Arikara scouts (among others). Of this group, nine survivors were interviewed in 1912. Their accounts of the battle were carefully translated and then published in 1920.
From inside the book:
"The purpose in publishing this material on the Indian campaign of 1876 is twofold. Merely as a matter of justice to the Arikara Indian scouts their version of the campaign in which they played an important part should have long ago been given to the public. Nearly every other conceivable angle of this memorable campaign has received attention and study. But during the past generation the Arikara scouts, true to their oath of fealty to the government as they understood it, have remained silent as to their own part in those eventful days. The present narrative is designed to make public the real story of the Arikara Indian scouts who served with Terry and under the immediate command of Custer. In August, 1912, the nine survivors of some forty of these scouts met at the home of Bear's Belly on the Fort Berthold Reservation, at Armstrong, and there they related to Judge A. McG. Beede and to the secretary of the State Historical Society the various portions of the narrative that follow. Each of the scouts gave that special portion of the whole with which he was most familiar. The narrators were very scrupulous to confine themselves to just that portion of the common experience to which they were eye witnesses."
CONTENTS
Historical, Introduction
Narrative Of The Arikara
Sitting Bear's Story
Story of the First Enlistment
The Narrative as continued by Soldier
The Enlistment as told by Young Hawk
The Second Enlistment
Red Bear's Story
Boy Chief's Story of His Enlistment
Account of an Interview with Custer
Red Star's Story of the March
Story of how the Mail was brought
Continuation of Red Star's Story
Young Hawk's Story
Red Star's Story, continued
Red Star's Story of Special Scout Work
Narrative of Young Hawk
Supplementary Story by Soldier
Continuation by Red Star, Boy Chief, and Strikes Two
Red Star's Additional Interview
Supplementary Story by Red Bear
Later Story by Running Wolf
Later Story of Little Sioux
Later Story of Goes-Ahead
Appendix
Expedition To The Black Hills
Gerard's Story Of The Custer Fight
Biographies
Soldier
Strikes Two
Young Hawk
Red Star
Red Bear
One Feather
Running Wolf
Goes Ahead, Crow Scout
James Coleman
[courtesy of Goodreads.com]
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