02954cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000090011910000270012824500320015526400510018730000470023833600260028533700260031133800360033750000310037350802020040452015620060653400660216865300470223465300310228165300260231265300340233865300480237270000390242085600470245985600430250699900190254978411UtSlPG20260610134822.0mcr n260607r20261931utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a31010067  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aE0111 aWooden Leg,d1858-194012aA warrior who fought Custer 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-10  aAaron 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.)  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cMinneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931  aLittle Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876  aBlack Hills War, 1876-1877  aWooden Leg, 1858-1940  aCheyenne Indians -- Biography  aCheyenne Indians -- Social life and customs1 aMarquis, Thomas Bailey,d1869-19354 uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.8906039695940uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78411  c119131d119131