Song of Dewey Beard : Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins and Family -- 2. Growing Up -- 3. Little Bighorn -- 4. Canada -- 5. Wounded Knee -- 6. Cody -- 7. Fox Belly -- 8. Pine Ridge -- 9. Gunnery Range -- 10. Last Man Standing -- 11. American Horse Creek -- 12. The Song of Dewey Beard -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Philip Burnham -- Illustrations.
Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as "old Dewey Beard," a living relic of the "old West" for the tourists.