Voices of the American West, Volume 2, The settler and soldier interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 - Ricker, Eli Seavey (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Wounded Knee -- 1. Peter McFarland -- 2. Charles W. Allen -- 3. Meded Swigert -- 4. Guy Vaughn -- 5. Francis M.J. Craft -- 6. John W. Butler -- 7. James R. Walker -- 8. George E. Bartlett -- 9. George A. Stannard -- 10. Joseph Kocer -- 11. W.F. Clark -- 12. E.C. Swigert -- 13. W.A. Birdsall -- 14. Cornelius A. Craven -- 15. James White -- 16. John H. Dixon -- 17. T.L. Williams -- 18. W.A. Ballou -- 19. Elbert Mead -- 20. Eli S. Ricker -- Chapter Two: Agents and Agencies -- 1. Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Keith -- 2. Robert O. Pugh -- 3. H.A. Mossman -- 4. A.F. Johnson -- 5. William J. Cleveland -- 6. Edmund Thickstun -- 7. John R. Brennan -- 8. George Stover -- 9. John B. Sanborn -- 10. Oluffine Nelson -- 11. Peter B. Nelson -- 12. Mabel M. Dawson -- Chapter Three: Little Bighorn -- 1. A.F. Ward -- 2. Charles Clifford -- 3. Edward H. Allison -- 4. Edward S. Godfrey -- 5. F.E. Server --
- 6. Walter Q. Tucker -- 7. Archie Smith -- Chapter Four: Beecher Island -- 1. Allison J. Pliley -- 2. John J. Donovan -- 3. Beecher Island Veterans -- Chapter Five: Lightning Creek Incident -- 1. Eli S. Ricker -- 2. Hugh Houghton -- 3. Roy Lemons -- 4. Isaac Robbins -- Chapter Six: Biographical Sketches -- 1. W.R. Jones -- 2. L.B. Lessert -- 3. Alexander Baxter -- 4. Harry Dean -- 5. John W. Brafford -- 6. Marion Spencer -- Chapter Seven: The Old West -- 1. Magloire Mousseau -- 2. George W. Colhoff -- 3. Carter P. Johnson -- 4. Baptiste Pourier -- 5. Richard C. Stirk -- 6. Ben Tibbitts -- 7. Heber M. Creel -- 8. William L. Judkins -- 9. David Y. Mears -- 10. Jacob A. Augur -- 11. A.G. Shaw -- 12. Peter Abraham Deon -- 13. John Russell -- 14. Augustus W. Corliss -- 15. John C. Whalen -- 16. John W. Irion -- 17. A.W. Means -- 18. John M. Comegys -- 19. William H. Taylor -- 20. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Robertson -- 21. Allison J. Pliley -- 22. William Holdaway -- 23. John Burdick --
- 24. William A. Coffield -- 25. James H. Cook -- 26. Donald Brown -- 27. Winfield S. Ake -- 28. Josephus Bingaman -- 29. George A. Leclere -- 30. Mr. and Mrs. John Farnham -- 31. Charles J. Brown -- Appendix A: Forts -- Notes -- Bibliography
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. 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