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Dr. Valentine Trant McGillycuddy (1849–1939) was a controversial pioneer of the effort to build a sustainable relationship between the United States and the Native American people. As the surveyor for the Newton-Jenney Party, McGillycuddy was the first known person to climb Harney Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He then served as Contract Surgeon with General George Crook during the Battle of the Rosebud, the Battle of Slim Buttes, and the Horsemeat March.
   As Assistant Post Surgeon at Fort Robinson and later as Indian Agent for the Red Cloud Agency, McGillycuddy was known to the Lakota of the modern-day Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as "Friend of Crazy Horse", and was the doctor who treated Crazy Horse at the time of his death.
   While he may have been a friend to Crazy Horse, he wasn't so much loved by some other Lakotas, including Red Cloud, a major Sioux chief. Red Cloud's accusations of mismanagement led to several investigations of Dr. McGillycuddy's administration. Under pressure to arbitrarily fire a loyal clerk, Dr. McGillycuddy eventually resigned his post. Later, in the days leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre, Red Cloud conceded that McGillycuddy had been a "young man with an old man's head on his shoulders."
   Dr. McGillycuddy would later serve as mayor of Rapid City, Dean of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, delegate to the South Dakota State Constitutional Convention, and as South Dakota's first State Surgeon General. The mansion that he built in 1888 is still standing today in Rapid City.
   McGillycuddy died at age 90 in Berkeley, California. His ashes are entombed at the top of Harney Peak behind a plaque that reads "Valentine McGillycuddy, Wasitu Wacan."
   Books based on Valentine McGillycuddy's life include:

McGillycuddy, Agent (Julia McGillycuddy, 1942); later republished as Blood on the Moon
Contract Surgeon (Dan Obrien, 2001)
Indian Agent (Dan Obrien, 2005)

Museum and archival collections

Journey Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota

State Historical Archives, Pierre, South Dakota

University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota

McGillycuddy House, Rapid City, South Dakota

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota

Fort Robinson Historical Museum, Fort Robinson, Nebraska

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MarylandFurther Information

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