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Their Courage Shaped a Nation
“Resting here until day breaks and shadows fall and darkness disappears is Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches” – Epitaph on Quanah Parker’s gravestone
On March 4, 1905, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade. With him in the parade of 35,000 were five other Indian leaders: Geronimo, Little Plume, American Horse, Hollow Horn Bear and Buckskin Charlie, representing the Apache, Blackfeet, Oglala, Brulé and Ute people, respectively.
Despite criticism from politicians and the press that six Indian leaders who once fought against the United States would be in the parade, the befeathered leaders rode with dignity and pride, and were greeted along the parade route with applause.
by John Finerty, edited by Paul L. Hedren Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. xviii, 302+. Illus., map, append., notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0806165057
Reporting from the Saddle
Irish immigrant John Finerty (1846-1908), landed in the United States in time to see some service in the Civil War. Postwar, he became a newspaper reporter, and in 1876 he covered the “Great Sioux War” for the
Chicago Times. Accompanying Brig. Gen. George Crook’s main column, he was often involved in fire fights, though missing the Little Big Horn.
In 1890 Finerty published
War-Path and Bivouac: The Conquest of the Sioux. A
rather stirring account of the war, the book was long thought to have included all of Finerty’s numerous dispatches to the