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Black Elk, Lakota Sioux holy man, warrior, survivor

25 October 2021 By Alec Marsh

Black Elk deserves to be remembered, says author Alec Marsh. He tells Historia about this extraordinary Oglala Lakota (Sioux) holy man, a mystic and warrior who fought at Little Bighorn yet lived until 1950. Black Elk survived Wounded Knee, joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, converted to Catholicism, and may eventually be beatified. His story […]

Ghosts of the West by Alec Marsh

9 September 2021 By Editor

When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him investigate. The crime is a grave robbery, and as Drabble and Harris pry deeper, events take a mysterious turn when a theft at the British Museum […]

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