Big Bat Pourier; Guide & Interpreter Fort Laramie 1870-1880
Sheridan: Mills Company, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo., 82pp., light tan illustrated wraps. Illustrated with historical photographs. -- Bottom front corner lightly bumped. otherwise a clean, sound copy. Near fine. Item #8789
"Big Bat Pourier was a Frenchman who married Josephine Richards, a Lakota woman. Big Bat's ability to speak French, English, Lakota and his empathy for the plight of the American Indian, helped him to negotiate the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. He tried to get the best deal possible for the Indian People."-ameritribes.
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