Eli Seavey Ricker (Maine; April 29, 1843 - 1926 Grand Junction, Colorado) was a corporal in the 102nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, who took part in Sherman's March to the Sea. After the war he became a newspaper reporter and editor in Nebraska as well as a county judge. He is most well known for his progressive views on Native Americans and the more than fifty interviews he did with various Native Americans, as well as scouts and settlers, recording various eyewitness accounts on events during the Indian Wars in the west, such as the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. He recorded this information for a book he planned on writing on more than 1,500 pages on ruled tablets which came to be known as "Ricker Tablets". He never got