Download or read book Black Hills Myths and Legends written by T. D. Griffith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did a doomed party of prospectors discover gold in South Dakota's Black Hills decades before Custer's Black Hills Expedition scouted out the area? Why would anyone want to murder one of Deadwood, South Dakota's most upstanding citizens? Where did Lame Johnny hide his stolen cache of over $7.5 million in gold? From the wily—and some say dangerous—jackalope to the world’s largest mammoth grave, Black Hills Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Mount Rushmore State’s most fascinating and compelling stories.
Download or read book Pioneer Days in the Black Hills written by John S. McClintock and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of the grass." Almost overnight a number of settlements sprang into existence. Among them was Deadwood. In April 1876, John S. McClintock arrived in search of gold. Entering a series of speculations and employments that won him moderate prosperity, he made Deadwood his home. During his later years, he wrote his memoirs, presented here for the first time in half a century.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok Calamity Jane written by James D. McLaird and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay
Download or read book Bad Boys of the Black Hills And Some Wild Women Too written by Barbara C. Fifer and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.
Download or read book Lakota Sioux Legends and Myths written by Marie L. McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral traditions and myths have long been an integral part of Native American cosmology. Not only have they been - and continue to be - an essential part of handing down Native American customs, norms, beliefs, and cultural histories, but they also form a communal mythic discourse. This discourse is not a "fixed text," but rather a dynamic process of interactive relations that are developed over generations of experience, and passed from relation to relation and generation to generation. In this sense, the traditional structures of mythic discourse serve an integrative function: to form a coherent basis for communal identity in terms of a shared set of fundamental ideas and beliefs expressed in multiple forms. The oral traditions and myths recorded in this book are part of the communal mythic discourse of the Lakota Sioux people. Originally collected and recorded at the close of the nineteenth century by two Native language speakers - Marie L. McLaughlin and Zitkala Sa - these oral traditions provide some of the least distorted or colonially disrupted examples of the Lakota Sioux communal mythic discourse. Containing over 40 oral traditions, Lakota Sioux Legends and Myths brings together into a single volume these remarkable myths and legends. Edited and with a forward by Peter N. Jones, Ph.D., Lakota Sioux Legends and Myths is a welcome and refreshing addition to the literature. Once again the beauty, depth, and knowledge contained within the Lakota Sioux oral traditions can speak for themselves.
Download or read book Insiders Guide to South Dakota s Black Hills Badlands written by T. D. Griffith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Travel Destination. Your Home. Your Home-To-Be. South Dakota’s Black Hills & Badlands Ghost towns and modern towns. Trendy eateries and rustic bars. Cowboys and artists. Rodeos, skiing, hiking, and biking. Breathtaking landscapes in a place of welcoming smiles. • A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike • Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, and accommodations • How to live & thrive in the area—from recreation to relocation • Countless details on shopping, arts & entertainment, and children’s activities
Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Sioux written by Marie L. McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mount Rushmore written by Julie Murray and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will learn about what Mount Rushmore is, how it was built, and the faces that are carved into the side of the mountain. The title is complete with historical and modern images, bolded glossary terms, a More Facts page, and a picture glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Carving of Mount Rushmore written by Rex Alan Smith and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to tell the complete story of Rushmore. "I had seen the photographs and the drawings of this great work. And yet, until about ten minutes ago I had no conception of its magnitude, its permanent beauty and its importance." —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, upon first viewing Mount Rushmore, August 30, 1936 Now in paperback, The Carving of Mount Rushmore tells the complete story of the largest and certainly the most spectacular sculpture in existence. More than 60 black-and-white photographs offer unique views of this gargantuan effort, and author Rex Alan Smith—a man born and raised within sight of Rushmore—recounts with the sensitivity of a native son the ongoing struggles of sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his workers.
Download or read book Yaqui Myths and Legends written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis reflect this people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory.
Download or read book Gold Rush Girl written by Sarah Elizabeth Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by Sarah Elizabeth "Sadie" Taylor of life in the Black Hills at the turn of the 19th century.
Download or read book The Lost Treasures Of The Black Hills written by Peter Netzel and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LOST TREASURES OF THE BLACK HILLS is the latest addition to Peter Netzel's lost treasure series of books. This volume covers lost treasure stories and legends from the Black Hills. This area is composed of several South Dakota counties: Lawrence, Pennington, Custer, Meade and Fall River; it also includes Crook and Weston counties of Wyoming. This is the addition to the 7-volume series, The Lost Treasures Of Montana; and the 5-volume series of the Lost Treasures Of Wyoming. These books have garnered widespread attention. In addition to appearances on local television stations, in podcasts, and local television stations, the author has appeared on the naionally syndicated Travel Channel. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A TREASURE HUNTER TO ENJOY THESE STORIES! These books are filled with Western history, firsthand accounts, and newspaper clippings containing details of the days gone by. From frontiersmen, Native Americans, cowboys, settlers, and gold rushers, the Black Hills are filled with stories. Many of these tales are centered on lost, buried, or hidden treasures throughout the region that have not been recovered to this day.The Black Hills area is beautiful, and a great place to visit. Even if treasure hunting is not your hobby, you will find places where interesting Old West history took place. This background history, fleshed out by actual newspaper accounts of the times, and coupled with detailed topo maps and other terrain descriptions, make Peter Netzel's lost treasures series the most comprehensive works of their kind published to date. What makes THE LOST TREASURES OF THE BLACK HILLS and the other books in the Lost Treasure series unique from others, is that they are enriched with maps and detailed descriptions of the locale near where the lost treasures lie hidden. Best of all, lots of firsthand accounts and historical material are included within the stories. You do not have to be a treasure hunter to enjoy these books!The state of South Dakota - and especially, the Black Hills - are rich in American history and possibilities for lost treasure. As settlers, gold seekers, and adventurers moved into Dakota Territory with the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, the U.S. Army followed to provide protection from the tribes determined to defend their lands against the encroaching settlers. Sites to explore include: former Native Americans camps and villages; the forts and other military establishments that housed the soldiers sent to protect emigrants from Native American attacks; farms and ranches where white people first settled the land; and, finally, anywhere prospectors roamed the hills and canyons in search of gold. There were trails and wagon roads criss-crossing the state of South Dakota and the Black Hills. Early on, gold from the Black Hills was transported by stagecoach to be taken further by train. Also, over these trails was freighted supplies needed by the mining camps and other settlements. Towns sprang up around the stage routes to serve the needs of the travelers, workers, and local residents. Most of these hastily mushrooming towns vanished as the railroads pushed westward. Any settlement along the old pioneer trails and the developing railroads, holds the possibility for lost treasure. And, more importantly, this is where history happened.
Download or read book Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains written by Katharine Berry Judson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the myths and legends of the Great Plains of America. From the creation of the world to the origin of the buffalo, this volume covers all aspects of the Plains Indians' beliefs, complete with examples of authentic works of art, songs, stories, and more. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in culture of the native Americans, and it would make for a worthy addition to allied collections. Contents include: "The Creation", "How the World was Made", "The Flood and the Rainbow", "The First Fire", "The Ancestors of People", "Origin of Strawberries", "Sacred Legend", "The Legend of the Peace Pipes", "A Tradition of the Calumet", "The Sacred Pole", "Ikto and the Thunders", "The Thunder Bird", "The Thunder Bird" et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.
Download or read book Where the Lightning Strikes written by Peter Nabokov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian For thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in their homelands. In this important book, respected scholar and anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes of a wide range of sacred places in Native America. From the “high country” of California to Tennessee’s Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona, each chapter delves into the relationship between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths and legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.
Download or read book Fossil Legends of the First Americans written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Download or read book Welsh Fairytales written by and published by Armadillo. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional stories of Welsh fairies, castles, shepherds, kings and bards, in a charming illustrated collection.
Download or read book Myths of the Cherokee written by James Mooney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.
