"By scouring the archives and conducting personal interviews, Philip Burnham has helped clarify the historical record, teasing out new information and dispelling lingering myths. Song of Dewey Beard is a thoroughly researched, well-written, and engaging book."-Akim Reinhardt, author of Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee -- Akim Reinhardt "The remarkable Dewey Beard was a man who seemed to live forever-old enough to have fought at the Little Bighorn in 1876 and its last survivor when he finally died in 1955. What the old-time Lakota were like, and what they lived through in those seventy years, is the subject of Philip Burnham's original, bracing, touching, surprising, and vigorously written book. Take note, this is something we have never seen before: a serious, and sometimes funny, and often dramatic, and always interesting account of a Lakota life after the buffalo were gone. That's where the story usually stops. Burnham lets Beard tell us what happened next."-Tom Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse -- Tom Powers "Song of Dewey Beard is an excellent study of a lesser-known Lakota warrior."-Paul Beck, Western Historical Quarterly -- Paul Beck * Western Historical Quarterly * "Burnham reignites a too-little-told story of one of the most extraordinary figures of Great Plains history."-Kevin Hooper, Great Plains Quarterly -- Kevin Hooper * Great Plains Quarterly * "Using a genuine relationship with Beard's relatives and intertwining their own personal stories into the narrative, Burnham underscores the legacy left them by this man who just lived life as best as he knew how."-Nancy S. Gillis, Nebraska History -- Nancy S. Gillis * Nebraska History *
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.
Philip Burnham is an assistant professor of composition at George Mason University and a former reporter for Indian Country Today. He is the author of So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons and Indian Country, God’s Country: Native Americans and the National Parks.
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