Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
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.