Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer

Name: Wooden Leg A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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ISBN: 9780803282889

ISBN-10: 0803282885

ISBN-13: 9780803282889

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Thomas B. Marquis, Richard Littlebear, Thomas Marquis

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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. Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations. He tells of growing up on the Great Plains and learning how to be a Cheyenne man. 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. In particular, Wooden Leg recalls the fight against Custer at the Little Bighorn,…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 389
Size: 5.34" wide x 8.01" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.990



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Boyhood Wild Days



Roamers in the Game Lands



Cheyenne Ways of Life



Worshiping the Great Medicine



Off the Reservation



Swarming of Angered Indians



Soldiers from the Southward



On the Little Bighorn



The Coming of Custer



The Spoils of Battle



Rovings After the VIctory



Surrender of the Cheyennes



Taken to the South



Home Again on Tongue River



A Tamed Old Man



Clearing the Docket