Across The Fence: Amos Bad Heart Bull

The recording and preservation of history is usually a painstaking and meticulous endeavor involving careful documentation of events and guarded safekeeping of records to insure its availability for future generations. Too often some of the most interesting and personal aspects of historical events and day-to-day living are lost in forgotten diaries, untold stories and sometimes accidental or even deliberate disposal. Oftentimes it is by mere happenstance that important historical documents are discovered and a previously unknown page of history is turned to full view.

The story of Amos Ba...