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From "No Place" To Home The Quest For A Western Home In Brewster Higley's "Home On The Range", C. M. Cooper
From "No Place" To Home The Quest For A Western Home In Brewster Higley's "Home On The Range", C. M. Cooper
Great Plains Quarterly
In the spring of 1934, New York attorney Samuel Moanfeldt set out on a trip that would take him through most of the states west of the Mississippi in search of the origins of the popular American folk song "Home on the Range." The reason for his trip was a $500,000 lawsuit filed by William and Mary Goodwin of Tempe, Arizona, who claimed that they had written the song-which was then the most popular tune on the American airwaves-and were owed royalties in arrears for its broadcast on public radio.
"This Must Have Been A Grand Sight": George Bent And The Battle Of Platte Bridge, Steven C. Haack
"This Must Have Been A Grand Sight": George Bent And The Battle Of Platte Bridge, Steven C. Haack
Great Plains Quarterly
The Battle of Platte Bridge, July 26, 1865, is a noteworthy event in the annals of the American Indian Wars. An alliance of Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapahoe, numbering in excess of 2,000 warriors, traveled three days to a specific military objective, an undertaking unusual both in terms of its magnitude and its level of organization. The battle is also of interest because we have a detailed description of the event written from the Native American viewpoint. This description comes in the form of a number of letters written to George Hyde by Southern Cheyenne George Bent. George Bent, son of …