The Wooden Leg: Warrior Who Fought Custer
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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."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803251246
ISBN13:9780803251243
Release Date:January 1931
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:1 Pages
Weight:0.99 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Wooden Leg is an interesting view of the Battle of the Little Big Horn...
Published by NicoleRJennings , 5 years ago
I have read this book before. I keep loaning it out or giving it to other people. This book is mostly told to a sociologist by Wooden Leg; however, he refers to other Native American men who support the version of events as Wooden Leg told them.
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