Thanks for keeeping this going Birdwatcher.
The swift change of the frontier and its inhabitants really hit me when I read the book by Frank Linderman; "Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows.
Born in the 1850's Pretty-shield lived largely a stone-age hunter-gatherer extistence following the huge herds of buffalo, surviving numerous Sioux attacks on her people, watching her husband go off to guide Custer, seeing the extermination of the buffalo and the hungry years that followed, the difficult early reservation years, seeing planes fly over the Crow reservation and she lived into the age of the atomic bomb and WWII.
Some really amazing changes in less than 90 years.
