The Journey Museum and Learning Center
222 New York St
Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone: (605) 394-6923
Email: [email protected]
www.journeymuseum.org
July 1, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dewey Beard Exhibit Opens July 3rd
RAPID CITY, SD - The Journey Museum and Learning Center is proud to announce the opening of a
new permanent museum exhibit, ‘Dewey Beard, Survivor of the Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee’.
The Dewey Beard exhibit opens to the public on Friday, July 3. The life of Dewey Beard spanned a time of
incredible change for both Lakotas and the United States. Born at a time when millions of bison roamed the Great
Plains and Lakotas were masters of the Black Hills Region, Beard saw both the Battle of Little Bighorn and the
invention of the atomic bomb during his lifetime. Beard’s life represented many of the struggles that Lakotas faced
in adapting to the Reservation life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This exhibit features clothing and artifacts owned by Dewey Beard and his wife Alice, including a U.S. Army bugle
that Beard collected after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The exhibit is possible through a generous loan of the collection by the Besselievre family.
The Journey Museum and Learning Center was established in 1997 and is conveniently located in downtown
Rapid City at 222 New York St, 2 blocks east of the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center right across from the Club for Boys.
Visit www.journeymuseum.org to find additional schedule information and be sure to ‘like’ us on Facebook!
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