Ho! for the Black Hills : Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hills Gold Rush and Great Sioux War (Paperback)

from anna_in_pdx

For a history book, this was what Mark Twain would have called a rippin' good yarn. "Captain" Jack Crawford is a twenty-something who is seeking adventure and wants to tell you all about it. In 1875, he leaves Omaha in the employ of one of its newspapers, the "Omaha Bee," and goes up into the Bla...

from themagiciansgirl

In Ho! For the Black Hills, author Paul Hedren presents us with the reports of John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford, field correspondent for the Omaha Daily Bee. Hedren has done an outstanding job. The organization of the content, the lively introductions, fascinating photos and unparalleled rese...

from BradKautz

Nineteenth century US history is filled with stories of opportunity and the folk heroes who pursued them. Looking back at that time from our perspective in the early 21st century it is easy to be selective about our considerations of the past. We can view the exploits of those heroes with a fond ...

from btuckertx

I thoroughly enjoyed "Ho! For the Black Hills", based on correspondence by "Captain Jack" Crawford to the Omaha Daily Bee. My maternal forebears were from the Rapid City area, and my grandfather worked at the Homestake Mine, so it shed some light on what they went through to settle the country. O...

from IslandDave

What a surprising gem of a book! Paul Hedren has collected the writings of Jack Crawford, a correspondent for the Omaha Bee living in Custer City during the start of the Black Hills gold rush and the onset of the Great Souix War of 1876. Each chapter starts with Hedren summing up Crawford's explo...