Year 1876 U. S. Army Letters. Sherman and his Generals correspond before and after The Little Big Horn Fight
General of the Army, William Tecumseh Sherman instructs his generals in Dakota Territory and Wyoming from his headquarters in St. Paul. Prior to the Little Big Horn Battle they were checking on whereabouts of Sitting Bull and other wandering Tribes. After the Little Big Horn Battle their letters indicate their frustration in locating the aforementioned Sitting Bull. Copied from Micro Spool No. 234, Roll No. 847, 1876 From the collection of Major A. B. Welch – 1874-1945 Written by Everett R. Cox, his grandnephew Welch Book #14a Background on this old roll of film I acquired my Great Uncle’s “Indian” collection in the late 1950’s. It consisted of a steamer-trunk loaded with artifacts and over 4,000...
Read MoreYear 1876 at Standing Rock. Letters & Interviews before and after the Little Big Horn Battle
An interesting view of the Standing Rock Reservation in 1876 (mainly through the eyes of the white man). Some very conflicting verbal battles between the Army, stationed at Fort Yates, and the Indian Agents of Standing Rock. Insight into life on the reservation before and immediately after the Little Big Horn Battle including interesting comments by Mad Bear, Big Head, Red Bull, Wolf Necklace of the Upper and Lower Yanktonais, John Grass and Running Antelope of the Blackfeet and Uncpapa, and lengthy interviews with Kill Eagle. Copied from Micro Spool No. 234, Roll No. 847, 1876 From the collection of Major A. B. Welch – 1874-1945 Written by Everett R. Cox, his grandnephew Welch Book #14b Background on this old roll...
Read MoreSitting Bull: Letters, Newspaper Clippings, Reminiscenses
Welch notes on Sitting Bull…birth, family, youth, Warrior status, Little Big Horn, Flight to Canada. ******************************************* TATANKAN EYOTANKA or SITTING BULL (1915 notes): Perhaps the most noted of the famous men of the whole Dakotah Nation, on account of his hostilities toward the whites and the idea that he was a great Chief and leader of war parties …as well as being the principal agitator in the Ghost Dance craze which ended in his death on Grand river, S.D. INDEX BIRTH, FAMILY & YOUTH WARRIOR, BIG HORN NOTES, BAD INFLUENCE, DEFIANCE DEATH, BURIAL INTERVIEW WITH MR. HOPKINS (REE) WHO TALKS ABOUT SB’S SON CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN TALKS ABOUT SB’S WIVES MRS. WELCH DINES WITH SITTING BULL SITTING BULL AND THE...
Read MoreSitting Bull (His Last Days, described in original letters given to Col. A. B. Welch)
School Teacher Carignan’s warning that Sitting Bull and his entourage were about to pack up and leave his cabin site triggered the following unfortunate events ************************************************ .Ghost Dance and ‘Messiah Craze:’ Porcupine visits Pyramid Lake and talks with the ‘Messiah,’ Is Wovoka the ‘New Christ?” and Welch conversations about this craze .School Teacher Carignan’s Letter to McLaughlin warning of Sitting Bull’s imminent departure from Grand River .McLaughlin’s order for the arrest of Sitting Bull .McLaughlin’s initial advice to Washington, DC, about the resulting fight .Descriptions of, and suppositions about,the fight in which Sitting Bull was killed ...
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