Voices of the American West, Volumes 1 and 2

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