First White Woman to Enter Black Hills
Expedition of October 6, 1874
Annie D. Tallent, wife of David G. Tallent, images and excerpts from her book, photographer unknown, Copyright © image from The Black Hills: Or, The Last Hunting Ground of the Dakotahs By Annie D. Tallent, St. Louis, Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1899.
Expedition of October 1874
"The grouping was as follows: No. 1 being composed of Capt. Tom Russell, Lyman Lamb, Eaf. Witcher, and, Angus McDonald. No. 2, B. B. Logan, Dan McDonald,or Red Dan, Dan McDonald, or Black Dan (the last two, bearing the same patronymic, were distinguished by the color of the shirts they invariably wore), James Dempster, James Powers, J. J. Williams, and Thomas Quiner. 3rd, John Gordon, J. W. Brockett, Newton Warren, H. Bishop, Chas. Long, Chas Cordeiro and Moses Aarons. 4th, R. R. Whitney, Harry Cooper, David Aken, and John Boyle. 5th, Chas. Blackwell, Thos. McLaren, Henry Thomas, D. Tallent, Annie D. Tallent, and Robt. E. Tallent, then a boy nine years of age, making twenty-eight in all."
'Died on the 27th day of November, 1874, on his way to the Black Hills, Moses Aaron, aged 32 years. May he rest in peace.'
"The expedition, it its entirety, was composed of twenty-six men, one woman, and a boy, six canvas-covered wagons, each drawn by two pairs of fat, sleek, and a few of them somewhat frisky cattle - by the way, they were neither so fat nor sleek, and not in the least frisky at the end of the journey. There were also five saddle horses, and two beautiful greyhounds (Dan & Fan), who frequent frantic chases after the poor timid antelope and rabbit, proved the source of much diversion to the expedition on its long, monotonous march across the bleak, treeless plains."