Author: Thomas H. Leforge
Publisher:
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Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Thomas Marquis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519042279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Tom Leforge was a legend in his time. Interpreter and scout, he lived among the Crow Indians, as a Crow, for decades. If not for a broken collar bone, Leforge would have been with the six Crow scouts that accompanied General George Armstrong Custer to the Little Bighorn. Instead, he watched from a hospital wagon as the troops marched off to their destiny. Days later, he interpreted Crow scout Curly's account of the battle for Lt. James Bradley of General John Gibbon's Montana column.This is one of the most important memoirs of early Montana and the Indian Wars. Compiled by Leforge's friend, Dr. Thomas Marquis, this is a modest, self-deprecating, and often humorous account of a white man who was fully accepted into Indian life.Leforge's observations on Crow culture and the vanishing way of life that he was a part of is fascinating and detailed. Though he left the tribe for two decades to live among whites, he returned to the Crow reservation in his later years as the place where he felt most comfortable.Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of a time that changed the country forever.

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ISBN: 9781649681713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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There's no better way to meet someone from over a hundred years ago than through an old memoir. It's 1928, a memoir of Thomas Leforge has been released for print. A self-described Ohio born American becomes an Army scout as a white Crow Indian.He's in charge of the Crow scouts riding with Custer at the Little Big Horn. He's not there for the fight but witnesses the aftermath. He talks about things most have never heard of. He not only becomes a soldier scout, but understands the Crow tongue and Indian sign-language so he interprets. He marries into the Crow family, respects their culture, and becomes a Crow warrior in every sense of the word. While there he learns about a life of the purest form; freedom. Thomas LaForge is so vivid while telling his stories he encapsulates your mind's eye putting you in the moment. Giving you no choice but to be a witness of every word spoken, every action taken. He'll make you smell the buckskins, see the sky, smell the smoke of each campfire, you'll feel the quiet lying in the grass while evading discovery. With each word you will feel the adrenaline like you are there with him. His stories breathe; taking you to the very center of that instant. You'll leave the page thinking I'm glad I'm out of there, as though it just happened.... You won't want to put this book down. Not only will you not want to put this book down but in many instances you'll witness some of the very "actors", places, and things he describes throughout his vast saga. A concentrated effort was made to search out as many individuals' images as possible to make his story complete while placing them strategically as able. Except for one 'surprise' image that most have always said had never been taken before. This fully indexed volume will be a great addition to anyone's historical library. Definition: memoir; noun, a narrative composed from personal experience "every memoir reminds us of the faraway and long ago, of loss and change, of persons and places beyond recall" Abigail McCarthy

Author: Thomas B. Marquis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780803208858
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Thomas H. Leforge was "born an Ohio American" and chose to "die a Crow Indian American." His association with his adopted tribe spanned some of the most eventful years of its history--from the Indian Wars to the reservation period—and as interpreter, agency employee, chief of Crow scouts for the 1876 campaign (he was with Terry at the Little Big Horn), bona fide Crow "wolf," and husband of a Crow woman, he was usually in the midst of the action. His story, first published in 1928, remains a remarkably accurate source of historical and ethnological information on this relatively little known tribe.

Author: Thomas Bailey Marquis
Publisher: Reference Publications
ISBN: 9780917256141
Category : Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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About the Crow: the introduction for this edition was written by Joseph Medicine Crow, who knew the author personally. The Crow scouts with Custer all witnessed the whiskey drinking the troops indulged in before the fight. Medicine Crow offers his own views for the Custer defeat. Marquis recites a story of a Crow chief who counted many coups by using his cleverness rather than bravery (p.60). Describes a few incidents among the Crow where the prisoners from an enemy tribe were treated well before being sent on their way.

Author: Alma Hogan Snell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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A memoir expresses the poverty, personal hardships, and prejudice of the author's life growing up as a second generation Crow Indian on a reservation, and the bond she formed with her grandmother, a medicine woman.

Author: Herman Lehmann
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN:
Category : Apache Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: James Pierson Beckwourth
Publisher:
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Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: Joseph Medicine Crow
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The oral historian of the Crow tribe collects stories which introduce the world of the Crow Indians, including its legends, humorous tales, history, and everday life.

Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1429976349
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011 Some secrets are better left buried; some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow. Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, Marcus Sedgwick's White Crow unfolds in three voices. There's Rebecca, who has come to a small, seaside village to spend the summer, and there's Ferelith, who offers to show Rebecca the secrets of the town...but at a price. Finally, there's a priest whose descent into darkness illuminates the girls' frightening story. White Crow is as beautifully written as it is horrifically gripping. This title has Common Core connections.