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Paperback From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee Book

ISBN: 0803259360

ISBN13: 9780803259362

From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee

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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...

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family ties

My great great grandfather wrote this book. So, I am a bit partial. I found this book to be so interesting in some chapters, and a little dry in others. However, to be fair, Charles W. Allen, was the only reporter at Wounded Knee. His reports went directly to the NYT and other papers. I did find my grandfather's other book, Autobiography of Red Cloud, to be extremely interesting. Not only Red Cloud's stories, but the way my grandfather came about them. I recommend for information it provided. And eyes into that time in our history.
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