The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919

Voices of the American West, Volume 1 

and
The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919
Voices of the American West, Volume 2  
Edited by Richard E. Jensen

“[A]mazing personal accounts [are] in these volumes, which present for the first time the extensive turn-of-the-century interviews of Eli S. Ricker, a pioneering Nebraska judge and newspaperman who traveled across the Dakotas a hundred years ago, interviewing the last of the old-timers on the northern prairie. . . . Here are the authentic voices of the real people who were actually there at Beecher’s Island, Little Bighorn, and Wounded Knee. Here is western history at its finest–vivid oral narratives that very well may become the stuff of prize-winning stories, novels, and films.” —Bloomsbury Review