on Wild West’s copyright, 162
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Brown), 19
Butler, Frank, 21, 133–35, 230, 236–38
Camp Alexis, 67
Canada, Sitting Bull flees to, xiii, 3–4, 84, 87
Cannupa Wakan (sacred pipe), 116
Captain Jack, 192
Carnegie, Andrew, 245
Carr, Eugene Asa, 24, 181–82
Carter, Robert A., 36
218–219
Catlin, Clara, 2
Catlin, George, 1–2, 199–200
Chadwick, G. W., 213
Charlie Almost Human (horse), 69
Charlie Joe (horse), 31–32
Cheyenne River Agency, 17
Cheyenne tribe, xiii, 44, 46, 64, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84, 86, 90, 115, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce, 100
Circling Bear, 192
Clark, Wesley, Jr., xiv–xv
Cleveland, Grover, 24, 173–74
Clifford, Captain, 12
Cody, Arta (daughter), 228
Cody, Isaac (father), 34–35, 37–39
Cody, Kit Carson (son), 60, 228
Cody, Louisa Frederici (wife), 28–29, 43, 60, 87, 214, 227–29, 232
Cody, May (sister), 235
Cody, Sam (brother), 35
Cody, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill”:
acquires name “Buffalo Bill,” 44
Annie Oakley and, 26, 57, 137, 229–30, 258
appears in The Scouts of the Prairie, 50, 91
appears in Sells-Floto Circus, 234–35
attempt to save Sitting Bull, 212–15
birth and early life, 33–40
as buffalo hunter, 43–46, 61–62
Canadian reception of, 146
death and burial of, 235–36
death of son, 60
description and personality of, 26–28, 143, 159
drinking habits, 214, 227, 229
duel with Yellow Hand, 84–86, 87
friendship with Custer, 61
gives horse to Sitting Bull, xi–xii, xvii, 182–83, 224–25
gypsy’s prophecy to mother, 156
home catches fire, 213–14
kills first Indian, 41
Lakota call “Long Hair,” xvi
love of horses, 30–32, 34, 35, 36, 38
makes movie, 231–33
meets President Harrison, 223
meets Sitting Bill in Buffalo, 138–40
as mythical figure of Great Plains, xiv, 52
photographed by Notman, 177–81
publicized by Buntline, 48–50, 52
receives bear claw necklace from Sitting Bull, 183
The Red Right Hand or Buffalo Bill’s First Scalp for Custer, 88, 91
rides for Pony Express, 41–42
Royal Buffalo Hunt and, 62–63, 66–72
Salsbury and, 51–53
scouts for army, 43, 48, 60–61, 84
seeks to hire Sitting Bull, 21–24, 91
Sitting Bull’s desire to meet president and, 15
wife and, 28–29, 43, 60, 87, 227–29, 232
women and, 27, 145–46, 227–29, 230
writings, 39, 60
see also Wild West
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Collins, Mary, 196–97, 208–9
Comanche (horse), 80, 83–84
Company K, 86
Compton, Cy, 31
Comstock, William, 45
Congress of Rough Riders, 226
Conquering Bear, 99
Cortés, 117–18
Council Fire, 192, 193, 198
cowboy church, 145
Crazy Horse, xv, 66, 75, 87, 115
Battle of Little Bighorn and, 3, 77, 78, 79, 80
surrender and death of, 100, 187, 222
Crazy Horse Memorial, xiii
Crook, George, 75, 77
Crow Eagle, 101, 170
Crow Foot (SB’s son), 7, 8, 9, 218
Crow’s Ghost, 101
Crow Woman, 221–22
Curtis, Edward S., 177
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis (Scott, Bleed, and Damm), 67–68
Custer, George Armstrong, xvi, 59, 61, 63
Battle of Little Bighorn and, 74–83, 149
gold expedition led by, 73–74
Royal Buffalo Hunt and, 67–72
Sitting Bull on, 174–75
treatment of animals and, 68, 70, 73
Custer, Libbie, 75
Custer’s Gold (Jackson), 73
Daily Picayune, 56
Dakota Territory, 63, 65
Dakota War of 1862, 114
Damm, Stephen, 68
Dave (dog), 236–37
Davies, Henry, 62
Dawes, Henry, 198
Dawes Act, 198–99, 200, 203, 205, 206
Denver Post, 233, 235
de Smet, Pierre Jean (“Black Robe”), 64, 170
“Don’t Fence Me In” (song), vii
Drum, Richard C., 173
Eden Musee, 96, 155
Edison, Thomas, 231
English Metropolitan, 162
Enss, Chris, 27, 28, 228, 230
Fallen Timbers, Battle of (1794), 127
Faribault, Louis, 204
Fechét, Captain, 220
Filgate (steamer), 147
Fire Cloud, 194–95
Fishing Elk, 101
Flynn and Sarsfield, 20
“Foes in ’76, Friends in ’85,” xii, xvi, 117, 180
Fool Thunder, 101
Forrest, Edwin, 49
Forts:
Abraham Lincoln, 64
Buford, 4, 6, 10, 119
Hays, 43
Kearny, 40, 41
McPherson, 62
Randall, 16, 17–18, 83
Stevenson, 12, 65
Yates, 11, 24
see also Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
Four Horns (SB’s uncle), 6, 13, 64, 104, 105, 107, 108, 115
Four Robes (SB’s wife), 17
Gall, 53, 64, 65, 79, 94, 174
Garfield, James, 16
General Sherman (steamboat), 11–12, 15, 16, 17
George (poodle), 134–35, 236
Ghost Dance, vii, 186, 190, 208, 210, 211, 216, 233, 242, 243–44
ghost shirts, 161, 185, 186, 190–91, 215, 221, 243
Gibbon, John, 75
gold, 73–74, 173
Good Feather (SB’s sister), 13
Goodman, Julia Cody, 34, 227, 228, 229, 234
Graham, John, 135
Grand Opera House, 20
Grand Rapids Leader, 169–71
Grant, Ulysses S., 51, 63
Grattan, John Lawrence, 99
Grattan Massacre, 99
Great Black Moose, 101
Great Mystery (Wakan Tanka), 76, 89
Great Plains:
buffalo hunting on, 46–47, 62
Cody as mythical figure of, xii, 52
war against Indians of, 63
Wounded Knee ends Lakota era on, 187
Great Sioux Reservation, 199
Grey Eagle, 205–6
Halsey, William, 97, 100, 101, 120
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 49, 51
Harney, William S., xv
Harney Peak, see Black Elk Peak
Harrison, Benjamin, 215, 223
Haslam, Bob (“Pony Bob”), 55, 213, 214
Hat Creek, 85–87
Havighurst, Walter, 98, 147, 226
Hawkman No. 1, 219
Her Holy Door Woman (SB’s mother), 104
Hickok, Wild Bill, 43, 92–93, 95
High as the Clouds, 6, 13
Higheagle, Robert, 113
Higley, Brewster, 57
History of Darke County, Ohio (Wilson), 129
“Home of the Brave” (exhibit), 161
“Home on the Range” (song), 57
horses:
at Battle of Little Bighorn, 78–83
Black Elk’s dream and, xv, xvii
ceremony to honor Sitti
ng Bull, 109
Crazy Horse carves petroglyph of, 78
Custer’s treatment of, 68, 70
return of wild, 161
Sitting Bull’s, and legend of dancing horse, xi–xii, xvii, 182–83, 224–25
Sitting Bull’s rescue of, 112–13
as star attractions of Wild West, 161–65, 226
see also specific horses
Hotchkiss guns, 232
Hunkpapa tribe, 3, 6, 7–12, 14–18, 23
see also Sitting Bull
Huntley, Robert, 112
Hurricane Katrina, 55
Hutton, Betty, 126
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Indian Rights Association (IRA), 174–75
Infirmary (county poor farm), 130–31
Interior Department, U.S., 23, 34, 95, 172, 200, 215, 231, 234
interpreters, see translators and translation
Iron Hawk, 78
Iron Tail, 236
Iron Thunder, 101
Jack (Red Cloud’s son), 225
Jackson, Allie, 20
Jackson, Andrew, 55
Jackson, Donald, 73
John Grass, 173
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 40
Jumping Bull (SB’s adopted brother), 76, 112
Jumping Bull (SB’s father, formerly Returns Again), 104, 108–10, 111–12
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 43, 47
Kasper, Shirl, 92, 128
Katzenberger, Charles, 131–32, 133, 134
Katzenberger, G. Anthony, 131–32, 133
Keogh, Myles, 79–80, 81, 149
Kicking Bear, 189–90, 212, 239, 242
Killdeer Mountain, Battle of (1864), 114
Know Nothing Party, 49
Lakota Sioux, 3
at Battle of Little Bighorn, 80–81
Battle of the Rosebud and, 77
competition with Canadian tribes, 155
forgiveness sought from, xiv–xv
gold found in territory, 74
humility as virtue in society, 97
inaccurate translations and, 99
matriarchal culture, 177
name for buffalo, 118
reburial of Long Wolf in U.S., 161
see also Hunkpapa tribe
Lamar, Lucius, 172
Lame White Man, 80
Lane, Franklin K., 231
LaPointe, Ernie, 102–3, 104, 109, 115, 218, 249
Last Indian Battles from the War Path to the Peace Pipe, The (movie), 231
Last Stand, The (Philbrick), 76
Last Stand Hill, 79
Légaré, Jean-Louis, 5, 8, 10
Leonard Crow Dog, Chief, xv
Lewis and Clark, 142, 184, 246, 249
“The Life of Dave, As Told by Himself,” (Butler), 237
Life on the Border (play), 59
literature wagons, 143
Little Bear, 78
Little Bighorn, Battle of (1876), xv–xvi, 3, 8, 21, 59, 74–83, 174–75, 227
Little Gray (horse), 36
“Little Raindrops” (poem), 135
Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, The (Russell), 55
Lone Man, 217, 219, 220
Long Wolf, 160–61
“Lucretia Borgia” (Cody’s gun), 45, 69
Luther Standing Bear, 198
41
McCoy, Tim, 189–90, 241–44
MacDonnell, Alexander, 10
McKinley (horse), 235
McLaughlin, Major James:
approves “Sitting Bull Combination” tour, 23, 94
Cody and, 21–22
as nemesis of Sitting Bull, 18–19, 93–94
permits Sitting Bull to join Wild West, 24, 97–98, 100
prepares to arrest Sitting Bull, 210–12
Standing Rock ceremony and, 194
takes Sitting Bull to St. Paul, 20
Weldon and, 201–2, 204–6
McMartin, Lieutenant, 145
McNulty, James, 54
Macready, William Charles, 49
Many Loves of Buffalo Bill, The (Enss), 27, 230
Meacham, Alfred, 192–93
meadowlarks, 112, 197, 204, 210, 249
Medicine Line, 3, 8, 51, 148, 149, 155
Medicine Tail Coulee, 79
Merchants Hotel, 14
Merman, Ethel, 126–27
Merritt, Wesley, 84
Miles, Carlo, 30–31
Miles, Nelson A., 187, 213, 223, 231, 232
“The Millionaires’ Hunt,” 62
Mississippi Jaeger (Cody’s rifle), 41
Modoc tribe, x, 192
Montezuma, 117–18
Montreal, 146–47
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill in (photo session), xii–xiii, 147
Morlacchi, Mademoiselle, 91
Morning Star (steamship), 29
Moses, Hulda (AO’s sister), 130
Moses, Jacob (AO’s father), 127–29, 129
Moses, John (AO’s brother), 129, 132
Moses, Mary Jane (AO’s sister), 129
Moses, Susan (AO’s mother), 127–9
Muldoon’s Picnic (play), 20
Murray, W. H. “Adirondack Murray,” 146–47, 179
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West (Stillman), xi
My Friend the Indian (McLaughlin), 194
My People the Sioux (Luther Standing Bear), 198
“My Western Home” (poem), 57
Nancy Kicking Bear (SB’s granddaughter), 247
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians, with a Brief Account of General Scully’s Indian Expedition in 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring in My Captivity (Kelly), 115
National Bison Legacy Act, 246
National Indian Defense Association (NIDA), 192, 196, 197, 198, 199, 203, 206
National Wildlife Restoration, 246
Native Americans:
contemporary protests at Standing Rock, xvi, 248
gain citizenship in 1924, 173
in movies, 231
rights movement, 192–93
see also specific individuals
Nebraska History Magazine, 234
Ned Buntline’s Own, 48
105
Nelson, John, 141
New Orleans, Wild West flooded during tour, 55–57, 136–37, 144
Annie Oakley appears out of the waters, 57
New Orleans, Battle of, 55
New York, Sitting Bull at Eden Musee, 96, 155
New York Herald, 67, 84, 113, 148, 216
New York Tribune, 73, 74
New York Weekly, 50, 87
No Neck, 64
North, Major Frank, 52
Northern Pacific Railway, 12, 13, 19
Northwest Indian War, 127
Northwest Mounted Police, 8, 147
Notman, William, 147, 177, 178–81
Notman Museum, 179
Oakley, Annie:
birth of, 128
Butler and, 21, 133–35, 230, 236–38
Cody and, 26, 57, 229–30, 238
death of, 238
hunting prowess, 128–29, 132–34
at the Infirmary, 130–31
performing pets and, 236–37
Sitting Bull and, 20–21, 124, 136, 172, 238
as Wild West star, 137, 147, 159–60, 226
Obama, Barack, 246
Olympic Theater, 20
Omohundro, J. B. (“Texas Jack”), 50, 91
One Bull (SB’s nephew), 16, 88
Osawatomie Brown (play), 36
Outdoor Life, 134, 145–46
Parker Brothers gun, 133
Patrie, La, 146
Paul, Andrea I., 234
Philadelphia, Sitting Bull on tour in, 174–75
Philbrick, Nathaniel, 76–77
Pine Ridge Reservation, 189, 231
pipe, sacred (Cannupa Wakan), 116
Plenty Coups, 161
Plenty Horses, 225
Pollack, Eileen, 199, 200, 202
Pony Express, 41–42
Pope, Dennis C., 5
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Porcupine, 189
Powell, Frank (White Beaver), 213, 214
Primeau, Joseph, 97, 100, 211, 215
Prince (horse), 38
railroads, 43–45, 118–19
see also specific railroads
Rain-in-the-Face, 80, 225
Red Cloud, 53, 192, 201, 205
Red Cloud Agency, 84, 86
Reddin, Paul, 157
Red Horn, 64
Red Right Hand or Buffalo Bill’s First Scalp for Custer, The, 88, 91
Red Thunder, 6
Red Tomahawk, 218, 219, 221, 238, 247
Remington, Frederic, 26, 245
Reno, Major Marcus, 78, 79, 165, 222
Returns Again, see Jumping Bull
Reynolds, Charley, 43
Richmond, Frank, 163
Rinella, Steven, 46, 245, 246
Rob Roy (Scott), 43
125
Roosevelt, Theodore, 245
Rosebud, Battle of the (1876), 77
Royal Buffalo Hunt, 62–63, 66–72
Running Antelope, 16
Russell, Don, 55
Ryan, John, 165–66
Sacajawea, 184, 246–47, 248–49
Sacred Horse Dance, 113
Sage, 190, 242
Salsbury, Nate, 51–53, 56, 167–68, 174–75
Salsbury’s Troubadours, 51, 52, 56
Sand Creek fight (1864), 46
Sandoz, Mari, 43, 44, 46, 47
Sardinia (steamer), 147
Sarnia (steamer), 147
Scarlet Thunder, 13
Scott, Douglas D., 67–68
Scott, Walter, 43
Scout’s Best Ranch, 29
Scouts of the Prairie, The (Buntline), 50, 91, 95
Sell, Henry Blackman, 36, 92–93
Sells Brothers Circus, 57, 135, 136–37
Sells-Floto Circus, 234–35
Seventh Cavalry, xiii, 3, 61, 74–83, 222–23
see also Little Bighorn, Battle of (1876)
Seventh Kansas Cavalry, 61
Seventeenth U.S. Infantry, 145
Shakespeare riots of 1849, 49
Sham (horse), 30–31
Shave Head, 217, 218, 219
Shaw, Joseph, 132
Sheridan, Philip, 61, 62, 63, 66–72, 74, 87
Sheridan House, 13
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 24, 74, 95, 128, 173
Short Bull, 189–90, 242
Sioux Nation, 63, 247
see also Hunkpapa tribe
Sitting Bull:
Annie Oakley and, 20–21, 57, 124, 136, 172, 238
arrest and killing of, 217–21
arrives in Buffalo, 120–24
Battle of Killdeer Mountain and, 114
birth of, 102
Buffalo Bill attempts to hire, 21–22
burial site, 245–48
Catherine Weldon and, 195–97, 198, 199, 200–211, 220
considered for Wild West, 53
denounces government at railroad ceremony, 19
desire to meet president, 15, 97
flight to, and return from Canada, 51, 84
gives bear claw necklace to Cody, 183
grants interviews, 148, 150–54, 168–72
known as Jumping Badger, 104–8
learns of Cody’s attempted final visit, 215–16
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