Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William “Buffalo Bill†Cody’s Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as “old Dewey Beard,†a living relic of the “old West†for the tourists.
Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William “Buffalo Bill†Cody’s Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformatio...
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