Captain Jack Crawford--buckskin Poet, Scout, and ShowmanBiography of American educator, author, explorer, and storyteller of the Wild West, John Wallace Crawford. |
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... Custer's expedition , and he undoubtedly read stories about Custer the following year , when the flamboyant colonel verified the pres- ence of gold in the Black Hills . Prior to this , the army had pre- vented prospectors from entering ...
... Custer's expedition , and he undoubtedly read stories about Custer the following year , when the flamboyant colonel verified the pres- ence of gold in the Black Hills . Prior to this , the army had pre- vented prospectors from entering ...
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... Custer City's greatest need was grain to feed the horses , and he appealed to residents in Omaha and Cheyenne to send in a carload of corn . Thousands of emigrants are coming into the Hills , Crawford wrote ; with cornfed horses , Custer ...
... Custer City's greatest need was grain to feed the horses , and he appealed to residents in Omaha and Cheyenne to send in a carload of corn . Thousands of emigrants are coming into the Hills , Crawford wrote ; with cornfed horses , Custer ...
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... Custer , he encountered thirty- five different teams loaded with supplies and passengers headed for Deadwood . 19 Upon his return south , Jack discovered that the entire pop- ulace of Hill City had joined the stampede to Deadwood— “ not ...
... Custer , he encountered thirty- five different teams loaded with supplies and passengers headed for Deadwood . 19 Upon his return south , Jack discovered that the entire pop- ulace of Hill City had joined the stampede to Deadwood— “ not ...
Contents
TWO YEARS IN THE GOLD FIELDS | 229 |
A GENIUS IN BUCKSKIN | 247 |
IF I BUT COULD | 273 |
Copyright | |
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