Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
Notes for William Garnett
610Crystal Dingler sent me the following note, regarding the book "The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: three eyewitness views by the Indian, Chief He Dog, the Indian-white, William Garnett, and the White doctor, Valentine McGillycuddy" with commentary by Carroll Friswold; edited, with intro by Robert A. Clark; University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.
William was apparently the son of Gen. Garnett who died in Pickett's Charge. Apparently, the General was a Major or whatever (head man) of a fort in Wyoming and fathered William. Then the War came and William stayed with his mother's people. By 1877, William was well educated and lived in both worlds, working as a translator. The material for the book was interviews with William done when he was 65 and living with his family on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. An interesting book, lots of William's letters (very literate). I didn't know there was a child. The books gives short shift to his parents, and gets on with the story of Crazy Horse.
William was apparently the son of Gen. Garnett who died in Pickett's Charge. Apparently, the General was a Major or whatever (head man) of a fort in Wyoming and fathered William. Then the War came and William stayed with his mother's people. By 1877, William was well educated and lived in both worlds, working as a translator. The material for the book was interviews with William done when he was 65 and living with his family on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. An interesting book, lots of William's letters (very literate). I didn't know there was a child. The books gives short shift to his parents, and gets on with the story of Crazy Horse.