Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the westernUnited States in the early 1890s James Mooney set out to describe andunderstand the... » 

Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the westernUnited States in the early 1890s James Mooney set out to describe andunderstand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka the Ghost Dance prophet at hishome in Nevada and traced the progress of the Ghost Dance from place to placedescribing the ritual and recording the distinctive song lyrics of sevenseparate tribes. «