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Red Cloud and the Indian Trader
The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
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Red Cloud and the Indian Trader
The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
About this book
Winner of the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Biographies
John William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia. After the Civil War, when he fought as a Confederate soldier with Mosby's Rangers, he went West. For fifteen years, until his premature death, Dear lived a tumultuous life in the West as one of the last fur traders on the Upper Missouri and as the longest serving, government-appointed Indian Trader to Red Cloud's Sioux. But misfortune struck time and again: he was stripped of his lucrative tradership by a corrupt Commissioner of Indian Affairs and a former Governor of Nebraska and he lost his trading business when the President changed the border between Dakota Territory and Nebraska to prevent JW from trading with his Indian clientele. His is an authentic Wild West story, true and tragic.
In the summer of 1871 JW met Red Cloud, the powerful leader of the Oglala who at that time was probably the most respected Indian chief in America. For the next twelve years the two men lived alongside each other on the vast Northern Plains. This was one of the most turbulent, violent, and controversial periods in the history of the American West. The end of the Civil War saw tens of thousands of emigrants brave the 2,000-mile journey across Indian territory in search of a better life in California and Oregon. It saw the coming of the trans-continental railroad across Indian land; the wanton slaughter of millions of buffalo the Indians depended upon for survival; the end of the fur trade; the emergence of cattle barons and open range ranching; the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota; the Great Sioux War of 1876; Custer’s last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn; and the forcing of the Lakota onto reservations.
This book is about two men caught up in these momentous events—Red Cloud, whose life has been well researched, and JW Dear, whose story has never been told. It is a story about the opening-up of the West and the process of nation building, driven by great vision, sacrifice, and human endeavor. But it is also a story of mismanagement, avarice, corruption, bigotry, extreme violence, and injustice. It is a very personal story of how Red Cloud and JW became caught up in these life-changing events, which bound the two men together as they fought for their survival. The book covers twenty-five tumultuous years of American history that includes the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, the opening up of the West, and the forcing of the Lakota onto reservations.
John William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia. After the Civil War, when he fought as a Confederate soldier with Mosby's Rangers, he went West. For fifteen years, until his premature death, Dear lived a tumultuous life in the West as one of the last fur traders on the Upper Missouri and as the longest serving, government-appointed Indian Trader to Red Cloud's Sioux. But misfortune struck time and again: he was stripped of his lucrative tradership by a corrupt Commissioner of Indian Affairs and a former Governor of Nebraska and he lost his trading business when the President changed the border between Dakota Territory and Nebraska to prevent JW from trading with his Indian clientele. His is an authentic Wild West story, true and tragic.
In the summer of 1871 JW met Red Cloud, the powerful leader of the Oglala who at that time was probably the most respected Indian chief in America. For the next twelve years the two men lived alongside each other on the vast Northern Plains. This was one of the most turbulent, violent, and controversial periods in the history of the American West. The end of the Civil War saw tens of thousands of emigrants brave the 2,000-mile journey across Indian territory in search of a better life in California and Oregon. It saw the coming of the trans-continental railroad across Indian land; the wanton slaughter of millions of buffalo the Indians depended upon for survival; the end of the fur trade; the emergence of cattle barons and open range ranching; the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota; the Great Sioux War of 1876; Custer’s last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn; and the forcing of the Lakota onto reservations.
This book is about two men caught up in these momentous events—Red Cloud, whose life has been well researched, and JW Dear, whose story has never been told. It is a story about the opening-up of the West and the process of nation building, driven by great vision, sacrifice, and human endeavor. But it is also a story of mismanagement, avarice, corruption, bigotry, extreme violence, and injustice. It is a very personal story of how Red Cloud and JW became caught up in these life-changing events, which bound the two men together as they fought for their survival. The book covers twenty-five tumultuous years of American history that includes the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, the opening up of the West, and the forcing of the Lakota onto reservations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Prologue
- PART I: Indian Troubles, the Civil War, and Reconstruction: 1861–1868
- Chapter 1: Red Cloud, the Oglala, and the Great Northern Plains
- Chapter 2: JW Dear, Mount Gilead, and Virginia
- Chapter 3: The Civil War, the Early Years: 1861–1863
- Chapter 4: Mosby, JW, and the Rangers
- Chapter 5: JW’s War: 1863–1865
- Chapter 6: Fort McHenry and the End of the Rangers
- Chapter 7: Reconstruction and the : 1865–1868
- Chapter 8: Red Cloud’s War and the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty
- PART II: Fur Trader on the Western Frontier: 1868–1871
- Chapter 9: JW Goes West: 1868
- Chapter 10: Fort Buford and the Fur Trade
- Chapter 11: Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: Winter of 1869–1870
- Chapter 12: Red Cloud Meets the President: 1870
- Chapter 13: Virginia, Royal Oaks, and West Again
- Chapter 14: JW Meets Red Cloud: Summer of 1871
- PART III: Indian Trader at the Red Cloud Agencies: 1871–1879
- Chapter 15: The First Red Cloud Agency: 1871–1873
- Chapter 16: Camp Robinson and the Second Red Cloud Agency
- Chapter 17: Richard Goes West: 1874
- Chapter 18: The Black Hills and the Badlands of Dakota
- Chapter 19: Gold, Betrayal, and Corruption: 1875
- Chapter 20: The Black Hills Become a Problem
- Chapter 21: The West Becomes Wild: 1876
- Chapter 22: The Great Sioux War and the Battle of Little Bighorn
- Chapter 23: General Crook Deposes Red Cloud
- Chapter 24: The End of Indian Resistance: 1877
- Chapter 25: The Death of Crazy Horse and the Move to the Missouri
- Chapter 26: Mary Ann and the Third Red Cloud Agency: 1878
- Chapter 27: Pine Ridge, the Fourth Red Cloud Agency
- Chapter 28: Fort Robinson and the Cheyenne Outbreak: January 1879
- PART IV: Red Cloud and JW Fight for Survival: 1879–1883
- Chapter 29: Greed, Cronyism, and Corruption
- Chapter 30: Agent McGillycuddy Humiliates Red Cloud
- Chapter 31: Red Cloud and the Dears Clash with McGillycuddy: 1880
- Chapter 32: Mary Ann, Old Red Cloud, and Virginia
- Chapter 33: The Feud Escalates and the President Acts: 1881
- Chapter 34: Red Cloud Fights Back: 1882–1883
- Chapter 35: The Final Days
- PART V: The Aftermath
- Chapter 36: Red Cloud
- Chapter 37: The Dear Family
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- About the Authors