A Wooden Leg 1858-1940 creator Marquis, Thomas Bailey 1869-1935 text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "A warrior who fought Custer" by Wooden Leg is a firsthand historical memoir written in the early 20th century. It offers the Northern Cheyenne perspective on life, warfare, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, with an interpreter-editor assembling and corroborating accounts from multiple veteran warriors. Readers can expect a vivid blend of personal biography, tribal customs, and a corrective to popular frontier narratives. The opening of the work frames the project through the interpreter’s statement: white survivors left no account of Custer’s last battle, so he learned sign-talk, hosted Cheyenne veterans, and cross-checked their testimonies, centering Wooden Leg’s life story. The narrative then begins with Wooden Leg’s boyhood—family and naming customs, how he earned his uncle’s name for endurance, early horse taming and hunts, brutal intertribal raids and reprisals against Crows and Shoshones, encounters around frontier forts, and portraits of leaders like Little Wolf. Subsequent opening chapters depict roaming the Powder, Tongue, and Little Bighorn country; horse thefts and skirmishes; great buffalo hunts; sacred treatment of rare animals; camp dances; contests of skill; and strands of folklore (e.g., Bear Lodge tales). They also outline Cheyenne governance via warrior societies (Elks, Crazy Dogs, Foxes), their policing of camp moves and hunts, strict discipline and punishments, and practical details of hunting and weaponry, especially arrows and their tribal styles. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2026-04-10 Aaron Adrignola, Dori Allard, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Originally published: Minneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931 Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 Black Hills War, 1876-1877 Wooden Leg, 1858-1940 Cheyenne Indians -- Biography Cheyenne Indians -- Social life and customs E011 Minneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931 31010067 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89060396959 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78411 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89060396959 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78411 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134822.0 78411