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Geronimo, An American Legend and The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

  Geronimo: An American Legend and The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History A Comparative Essay By Temple Dillard I wrote this for my American History class. The assignment was to read the book Journey of Crazy Horse, written by written by Joseph Marshall, which is the history of Crazy Horse as passed down to him by his Lakota family, including the defeat of Custer.  We also watched Geronimo starring Wes Study as the title character, Gene Hackman who's character General Crooks was involved in the the Crazy Horse conflicts, Matt Damon as the green Army officer, Jason Patrick as the seasoned officer, and Robert Duvall as the gritty Indian Fighter.      The purpose of both of these pieces was to tell a story.   Though from greatly varied positions, they both tell the story of European American expansion into The American West at the expense of the Indigenous Americans who were there before.   Though told from different perspectives, they carry parallels, and no wonder
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Grousing!

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      Fall is a damned busy time, though sometimes parts of it still feel like summer, which is also damned busy.  Summer is full of fishing.   And berry picking.           And berry picking can trail into fall time if you're careful about it.  Berry picking saved our caribou trip this year. But I reckon the clarion call of fall time for us grouse season!  In our area the opener coincides with caribou.  Don't get me wrong, caribou hunting excites me, but grousing really turns my gears.    Upland bird hunting has rung my bell since I could work the pump on my first 22, a Rossi with an exposed hammer my dad bought me when I was too young but caught him in a moment of weakness.  That gun accounted for an untold number of ptarmigan, no grouse where I grew up.  It was also responsible for many ground squirrels, thousands of soda cans and distant rocks exposed in the mud at low tide, and I even missed a few seals with it.    My preferred tool for ptarmigan when I was a kid was a 20 g
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