Wooden Leg : A Warrior Who Fought Custer

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Wooden Leg was once probably the most 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 at the same time as the Cheyennes were positioned at the reservation in the heart of the region where had been the conflicts. Thus they have got kept their memories fresh or have kept every other prompted into true recollections. This advantageous condition has rendered them the most efficient of first-hand authorities.” The writer 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 more youthful Little Wolf – “all of whom were with the hostile Indians when Custer came.”

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