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Civilization of the American Indian volume 46
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"If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the notoriety and was paraded in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as "the warrior who killed Custer." But this new edition of Stanley Vestal's classic biography of the famous chief emphasizes that "Sitting Bull's fame does...
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Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Little Big Horns, was the scene of the Fetterman Massacre on December 21, 1866. Part of Red Cloud's War, it pitted Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces against the United States Army. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause célèbre and was investigated by Congress. This book, based on Army records and first-hand reports, attempts to give a comprehensive...
