Title: Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Description: "Valentine Trant O'Connell McGillycuddy's life (1849-1939) encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever ... Author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy's ... experiences on the northern plains as topographer, cartographer, physician, and Indian agent. Drawing on family papers, interviews, government documents, and a host of other sources, Moulton presents a colorful character -- a thin, blue-eyed, cultured physician who could outdrink trail-hardened soldiers ... She traces McGillycuddy's work mapping out the U.S.-Canadian border; treating the wounded from the battles of the Rosebud, the Little Bighorn, and Slim Buttes; tending to Crazy Horse during his final hours; and serving as agent to the Sioux at Pine Ridge, where he clashed with Chief Red Cloud over the government's assimilation policies"--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Physicians, Government relations, Dakota Indians, United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency, Surgeons, Wars, 1876, Indian agents, Surveyors, Pine Ridge Reservation (S.D.), United States. Army, United States, Biography, History, United states, army, biography, Physicians, biography, Indians of north america, west (u.s.), Indians of north america, government relations, South dakota, history, Black Hills War, 1876-1877, Military Medicine, North American Indians, History, 20th Century, History, 19th Century
Places: United States, Dakota Territory, South Dakota
People: Valentine McGillycuddy (1849-1939)
Time periods: 19th century