Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer Second Edition Marquis Thomas B.Paperback
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer Second Edition Marquis Thomas B.Paperback Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors…
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer Second Edition Marquis Thomas B.Paperback
Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He tells of growing up on the Great Plains and learning how to be a Cheyenne man. Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations.
In particular, Wooden Leg recalls the fight against Custer at the Little Bighorn, a controversial and arresting recollection that stands as the first published Native account of that battle. We hear from him about Cheyenne courtship, camp life, spirituality, and hunting; of skirmishes with Crows, Pawnees, and Shoshones; and of the Cheyennes' valiant but doomed resistance against the army of the United States. As an old man in his seventies, Wooden Leg related the story of his life and the Little