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The chiefs sat around the council fire awaiting Sitting Bull's final instructions.
"Swift riders will go at once to every hunting band of Indians yet free upon the prairies. At the same time, riders will go to every agency of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho to the sunward of the Big Muddy River. The riders will whip their ponies hard. When the ponies stagger at last into the prairie camps and the agency villages, the riders will leap from their backs and will rip open the entry-flaps of each chief's tipi, speaking to him these words of Tatanka Yotanka:
"'It is war. Come to the camp of Sitting Bull which then will be at the big bend of the Rosebud River. Let us all get together and have one more big fight with the soldiers!'"
"Hun-hun-he!" roared the chiefs, deep voices bounding from the buffalo skins of the council lodge. "Let us die as proud men, as freemen, as Indians!"
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Other Leisure books by Will Henry:
ALIAS BUTCH CASSIDY
THE HUNTING OF TOM HORN
ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS
YELLOWSTONE KELLY
RED BLIZZARD
THE LAST WARPATH
WHO RIDES WITH WYATT
CHIRICAHUA
JOURNEY TO SHILOH
MACKENNA'S GOLD
THE CROSSING
THE BEAR PAW HORSES
SAN JUAN HILL
DEATH OF A LEGEND
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Custer
Will Henry
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A LEISURE BOOK
August1999
Published by special arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency.
Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. 276 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001
If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
YELLOW HAIR Copyright 1953 by Henry Wilson Allen. Copyright renewed 1981 by Henry Wilson Allen.
CUSTER'S LAST STAND Copyright 1966 by Henry Wilson Allen. Copyright renewed 1994 by Dorothy H. Allen.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.
ISBN 0-8439-4569-9
The name "Leisure Books" and the stylized "L" with design are trademarks of Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Printed in the United States of America.
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Historical Foreword
... The energy and rapidity shown during one of the heaviest snowstorms known to this section of the country, with the temperature below freezing, the gallantry and bravery displayed, resulting in such signal success, reflects the highest credit on the 7th Cavalry... and the Major-General Commanding expresses his thanks to the officers and men engaged in the Battle of the Washita, and his special congratulations to their distinguished commander Brevet Major-General George A. Custer for the efficient and gallant service opening the campaign against the hostile Indians north of the Arkansas... Text of General P. H. Sheridan's communique announcing the Battle of the Washita, November 27th, 1868
Custer's "signal success" along the Washita may indeed have reflected the "highest credit" upon his "distinguished commanding." But the tongue of White Man's history can be crooked. And the pens of Generals do not always travel in straight lines.
What actually happened that snow-shrouded, shameful dawn along the Washita has not been told.
Not the way Moxtraveto, the trusting Black Kettle of the Southern Cheyenne, would deeply mutter it. Not the way Axhonehe, the sinister Mad Wolf of the Cut-Arm Dog Soldiers, would angrily snarl it. Not the way Monaseetah, the legendary South Plains tribal princess, would hauntingly smile it. And certainly not the way Joshua Kelso, Custer's Indian-killing Chief of Scouts, would soft-spokenly remember it.
It has been told only in Brevet Major-General George Armstrong Custer's self-hallowed, heroic way.
Now it will be told in another way. Scarcely self-hallowed. Hardly heroic. Surely not distinguished. Nor highly creditable.
Now it will be told in Yellow Hair's way.
W.H.
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1 Plenty Kills
The big dun gelding picked up the weary rhythm of his shuffling gait. His rider tensed, restless eyes quartering the darkened prairie beyond the nervous flick of his mount's ears. Shortly he relaxed, the softness of his voice belying the grimness of the nod which accompanied it.
"There she be, Wasiya. Broad as a squaw's bottom and twice as welcome. I allow we won't have no trouble makin' the fort by moonset now."
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