In Ho! For the Black Hills: Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hills Gold Rush and Great Sioux War, esteemed historian Paul L. Hedren has collected all of Crawford’s newspaper dispatches to the Omaha Daily Bee from June 1875 through October 1876 (along with several of his accounts sent to other newspapers). More than an idle eyewitness, Crawford, a.k.a. the “Poet Scout,” was an active participant in the Black Hills gold rush excitement and Great Sioux War activities (he joined Gen.
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