Memoirs of a White Crow Indian (Thomas H. Leforge)

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Memoirs of a White Crow Indian (Thomas H. Leforge) / as told by Thomas B. Marquis. With an introd. by Joseph Medicine Crow and Herman J. Viola.

Leforge, Thomas H., 1850-1931 (Author). Marquis, Thomas Bailey, 1869-1935 (editor.).

Summary:

Publisher description: Thomas H. Leforge was "born an Ohio American" and chose to "die a Crow Indian American." His association with his adopted tribe spanned some of the most eventful years of its history--from the Indian Wars to the reservation period-and as interpreter, agency employee, chief of Crow scouts for the 1876 campaign (he was with Terry at the Little Big Horn), bona fide Crow "wolf," and husband of a Crow woman, he was usually in the midst of the action. His story, first published in 1928, remains a remarkably accurate source of historical and ethnological information on this relatively little known tribe.

Record details

ISBN: 0803258003
ISBN: 9780803258006
Physical Description: xx, 356 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1974, ©1928]

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A Bison book."

Reprint of the ed. published by Century Co., New York.
Formatted Contents Note:: The emigration westward -- Bad Indians and bad white men -- At the first Crow agency -- On the Yellowstone in the earliest seventies -- The agency at Absaroka -- Life in the lodges of the Crows -- Old Crow Indian customs and beliefs -- When Gibbon and Custer came in 1876 -- Scouting again after Sitting Bull's Sioux -- Old Fort Custer on the Bighorn -- White-man life as a mining man -- At home again with the Crows.