Henry F. Farny

July 2024
1min read

By the time Henry F. Farny visited the Sioux country in the 1880’s, telegraph wires spanned the ancient buffalo range and the Indians had been pushed onto reservations. A sympathetic observer of the Red Man baffled by the White Man’s scientific world. Farny helped to win him a measure of belated justice.

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