Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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Author : Thomas B. Marquis
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer written by Thomas B. Marquis and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Wooden Leg was one of the sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Sioux against Custer at the legendary Battle of the Little Bighorn. As an old man in his seventies, he related his story of the battle to Thomas B. Marquis, formerly an agency physician for the Northern Cheyennes, in scores of interviews, illustrating his statements with drawings and maps. "Some aspects of Wooden Leg's account have provoked controversy, but - as Marquis points out - soon after the battle the Sioux were settled in the Dakotas while the Cheyennes were located on the reservation in the heart of the region where had been the conflicts. Thus they have kept their memories fresh or have kept each other prompted into true recollections. This advantageous condition has rendered them the best of first-hand authorities." The author checked and corroborated or corrected all points of importance with other Cheyennes - among them Limpy, Pine, Bobtail Horse, Sun Bear, Black Horse, Two Feathers, Wolf Chief, Little Sun, Blackbird, Big Beaver, Medicine Bull, and the younger Little Wolf - "all of whom were with the hostile Indians when Custer came."”-Print Ed.
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated
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Author : Wooden Leg
language : en
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Release Date : 2016-02-02
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated written by Wooden Leg and has been published by BIG BYTE BOOKS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with History categories.
One of the most fascinating classics ever written about the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Dr. Thomas Marquis spent many years getting to know and interviewing Native Americans who had fought against General Custer and the 7th Cavalry. This is the narrative of Chief Wooden Leg, given to Marquis late in Wooden Leg's life. Long dismissed by historians, Little Bighorn scholars today believe the Indian accounts to be essential to an understanding of what went wrong at the Little Bighorn (and what went right for the Sioux and Cheyenne). Archaeology at the battlefield has born out the veracity of the Indian accounts and the contribution to history by Wooden Leg and Marquis is invaluable. Included is a great deal of information about the life of the Cheyenne of Wooden Leg's time, his boyhood, his understanding of Indian medicine, a very detailed account of the June 25-26, 1876 battle with Custer, and more. This is a book you'll read more than once. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Wooden Leg
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Author : Wooden Leg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-23
Wooden Leg written by Wooden Leg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-23 with categories.
The story of Custer's last battle is rarely told from the Native American perspective, despite the fact that there were no white survivors. Stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn are therefore often more myth than truth.In 1922, Thomas B. Marquis decided to uncover the true story of Custer's Last Stand by speaking to someone who had actually fought against him. For hour after hour Marquis spoke to Wooden Leg and pieced together the narrative of the battle.Yet, Marquis' studies cover much more than the final demise of Custer. Through his interviews with Wooden Leg, who was a young man at the time of Little Bighorn, he was able to uncover fascinating details about the everyday life of Cheyenne Indians and their practices.Their hunting practices, their conflicts with the Crows, how they were given names, their religion, their marriage customs, and other details of their way of life are all covered.As the relations between American soldiers and Native Americans grew more tense Wooden Leg and his Cheyenne people were drawn into conflict.Wooden Leg provides a fascinating account of how the Native American tribes were drawn together in a loose alliance to repel the oppression to which they had been subjected. Though the Native Americans won the battle, they certainly did not win the war. Wooden Leg's account of the years after Little Bighorn demonstrates how many Native Americans struggled with life on the reservations and how they longed to be on the plains once again.Wooden Leg's memoirs interpreted by Thomas B. Marquis give a fascinating insight into Native American life in the late-nineteenth century. "[A] deeply interesting story." The New York TimesAfter entering a reservation Wooden Leg worked as a scout, messenger and sentry. He was part of the 1913 delegation sent to Washington to speak about the Cheyenne tribe. Later he became a judge on the reservation and died in 1940.
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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Author : Wooden Leg (Cheyenne Indian.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer written by Wooden Leg (Cheyenne Indian.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 categories.
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated
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Author : Wooden Leg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-02
Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer Expanded Annotated written by Wooden Leg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-02 with categories.
One of the most fascinating classics ever written about the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Dr. Thomas Marquis spent many years getting to know and interviewing Native Americans who had fought against General Custer and the 7th Cavalry. This is the narrative of Chief Wooden Leg, given to Marquis late in Wooden Leg's life.Long dismissed by historians, Little Bighorn scholars today believe the Indian accounts to be essential to an understanding of what went wrong at the Little Bighorn (and what went right for the Sioux and Cheyenne). Archaeology at the battlefield has born out the veracity of the Indian accounts and the contribution to history by Wooden Leg and Marquis is invaluable.Included is a great deal of information about the life of the Cheyenne of Wooden Leg's time, his boyhood, his understanding of Indian medicine, a very detailed account of the June 25-26, 1876 battle with Custer, and more. This is a book you'll read more than once.Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever.
Little Bighorn Remembered
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Author : Herman J. Viola
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1999
Little Bighorn Remembered written by Herman J. Viola and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the elite U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. It was a shocking defeat--or magnificent victory, depending on your point of view--and more than a century later it is still the object of controversy, debate, and fascination. What really happened on that fateful day? Now, thanks to the work of Herman J. Viola, Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, we are much closer to answering that question. Dr. Viola, a leader in the preservation of Native American culture and history, has collected here dozens of dramatic, never-before-published accounts by Indians who participated in the battle--accounts that have been handed down to the present day, often secretly and accompanied by oaths of silence, from one generation to the next. These remarkable eyewitness recollections provide a direct link to that day's events; together they constitute an unprecedented oral history of the battle from the Native American point of view and the most comprehensive eyewitness description of Little Bighorn we have ever had. Here are the dramatic stories of the Cheyenne and Lakota warriors who rode into battle against Custer, the yellow-haired Son of the Morning Star, an adversary whose valor they admired--but who became a mortal enemy after breaking his peace-pipe oath, a scene described vividly in these pages. Here in their own words are the stories of the Crow scouts, allies of Custer, who advised against attacking Sitting Bull's village on the Little Bighorn. Hereare tales of valor told by the Arikara scouts who fought side by side with Custer's men against the Lakota and Cheyenne; although the Great Father in Washington rewarded their heroism with silence, it is celebrated to this day in tribal stories and songs that come to us from beyond the grave with hair-raising immediacy and power. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred maps, photographs, reproductions, and drawings, this remarkable book also includes: An account of the battle, including startling descriptions of Custer's conduct, collected from the Crow scouts by the famed photographer Edward S. Curtis in 1908. Curtis never published this report--President Theodore Roosevelt advised him not to--and it remained a secret until his ninety-year-old son recently gave the material to the Smithsonian. New archaeological evidence from the battlefield that casts fresh light on the Seventh Cavalry's movements, along with discoveries from the site of Sitting Bull's village--including the complete skeleton of a cavalry horse with its rider's well- preserved saddlebags and personal items. A series of illustrations made soon after the battle by Red Horse, a remarkable tableau that is reproduced here in its entirety for the first time. Three letters written by Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily just days before he died at Little Bighorn that provide key and potentially controversial insights into the conduct of the cavalry under Custer's command. In short, this landmark book takes us much closer to knowing what really happened on that June day in 1876 when Custer died and a legend was born.
Two Leggings
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Author : Two Leggings
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1982-01-01
Two Leggings written by Two Leggings and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Fur traders observed that no other Indians of the Upper Missouri were so well dressed or bragged of their tribal affiliation as frequently or as vociferously as the Crow. Two Leggings, the teller of the story you are about to read, was above all else a Crow warrior. His story tells us quite as much of tribal values that motivated and guided his actions as it does of his personal escapades. He was one of the last Crow Indians to abandon the warpath.
Keep The Last Bullet For Yourself
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Author : Thomas Bailey Marquis
language : en
Publisher: Reference Publications
Release Date : 1985
Keep The Last Bullet For Yourself written by Thomas Bailey Marquis and has been published by Reference Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 categories.
About the Crow: the introduction for this edition was written by Joseph Medicine Crow, who knew the author personally. The Crow scouts with Custer all witnessed the whiskey drinking the troops indulged in before the fight. Medicine Crow offers his own views for the Custer defeat. Marquis recites a story of a Crow chief who counted many coups by using his cleverness rather than bravery (p.60). Describes a few incidents among the Crow where the prisoners from an enemy tribe were treated well before being sent on their way.
Memoirs Of A White Crow Indian Thomas H Leforge
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Author : Thomas H. Leforge
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1974-01-01
Memoirs Of A White Crow Indian Thomas H Leforge written by Thomas H. Leforge and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Thomas H. Leforge was "born an Ohio American" and chose to "die a Crow Indian American." His association with his adopted tribe spanned some of the most eventful years of its history--from the Indian Wars to the reservation period?and as interpreter, agency employee, chief of Crow scouts for the 1876 campaign (he was with Terry at the Little Big Horn), bona fide Crow "wolf," and husband of a Crow woman, he was usually in the midst of the action. His story, first published in 1928, remains a remarkably accurate source of historical and ethnological information on this relatively little known tribe.