As current events in North Dakota and South Dakota swirl around pipelines, historic gravesites, life-giving waters, sacred land, natural resources, corporations versus people and courts, governments, citizenship and nationhood, Joe Jackson’s Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of the American Indian people and their leaders, despite their cultural marginalization in United States history.
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February 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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Departments
- Did Old West Towns Require Cowboys To Check Their Guns?
- What History Has Taught Me: Rex Allen Jr., Country Singer
- Western Events for February 2017
- Which U.S. Army Officer Had The Worst Attitude Toward Indians?
- Who Was William Preston Longley?
- What Is A High Shoulder Saddle?
- A Pistoleer Goes Semi Auto
- Where Was The Tombstone Jail?
- Little Houses on the Prairie
- Why In Bob Boze Bell’s Painting, Is Wild Bill Hickok’s Navy Colt Pointed To The Sky?
- The Wickedest Cattletown in Kansas
- Sold Off By Her Father
- What History Has Taught Me: Drew Gomber, History Buff
- A Stone Sentinel Stands Tall Again