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Dancing Man of the Navajoes tale revived in frontier history
The Frontier Times highlights Texas history pages and the legend of The Dancing Man of the Navajoes. The piece recounts Major Backus’s staged puppet performance that persuaded Navajo chiefs to seek peace, transforming hostiles into allies and leaving a mounted relic at Fort Defiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Lone Star
Frontier Times
Fine Little Monthly
Adobe Walls
John Wesley Hardin
Texas Ranger
Annie E. Brown
John Ware
Houston
Wilson
Dove Creek
Pri
United States
Rio Grande
Mississippi
Mexico
Summer
Ft. Defiance
Backus
Whistler
Fort Defiance
War Department
Washington
Buckus
Dancing Man