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 &quot;Buffalo Bill&quot; 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 &quot;old Dewey Beard,&quot; a living relic of the &quot;old West&quot; for the tourists.<br>