Cheyenne Summer by Terry Mort

Author:Terry Mort
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2021-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

It was not merely gold in the Black Hills. As the editorial notes, the Hills were also known to have fertile and well-watered meadows for farmers to plow or ranchers to graze their cattle. And the endless forests were prime for lumbering. They were a rich natural resource of the kind that the advancing civilization coveted and knew what to do with. Thus the Black Hills symbolized something to the white man that was very different from their meaning to the Indians. To the whites, and especially the settlers and miners, the Hills were a vast resource to be developed, and to let those resources sit idle under the lazy occupation by the tribes was a crime against enterprise and a glaring symbol of the imbecility and ineptitude of the government’s policies toward the Indians. Lieutenant James Calhoun of the Seventh Cavalry succinctly expressed the white civilization’s point of view:

Man is the noblest work of God. In this wild region man will ultimately be seen in the full enjoyment of happiness obtained by honest labor. For the hives of industry will take the place of dirty wigwams. Civilization will ere long reign supreme and throw heathen barbarianism into oblivion.

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