Guests from Pine Ridge

Because of his friendship with Chief Red Cloud and others, James Cook regularly invited Lakota families from the Pine Ridge Reservation to stay at Agate Springs Ranch. Traveling by wagon and horseback, they made the 150-mile, one-week journey almost every summer and camped along the Niobrara River just east of the ranch house. Their visits offered time away from reservation life, opportunities to reminisce with Cook, and chances to practice traditional ways. These visits continued through a generation of families from 1888 through the late 1930s.

Harrison, Nebraska · United States