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Sitting Bull, legendary Teton Lakota leader, died at the age of 59 in South Dakota. He was killed while being arrested in the federal government's crackdown on the Ghost Dance movement.
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It took place in South Dakota when U.S. Cavalry troopers fired on Lakota people who had gathered. The killing of hundreds of unarmed people essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West.
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Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement.
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As a member of the Princeton Class of 1917, Fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship.
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Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama. There he fell in love with a celebrated belle, eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge.
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Fitzgerald returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side of Paradise. It was accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribners in September.
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Began his career as a writer of stories for the mass-circulation magazines. Working through agent Harold Ober, Fitzgerald stopped work on his novels to write popular fiction for the rest of his life.
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