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100 1 _aWooden Leg,
_d1858-1940
245 1 2 _aA warrior who fought Custer
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-10
508 _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.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMinneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931
653 _aLittle Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
653 _aBlack Hills War, 1876-1877
653 _aWooden Leg, 1858-1940
653 _aCheyenne Indians -- Biography
653 _aCheyenne Indians -- Social life and customs
700 1 _aMarquis, Thomas Bailey,
_d1869-1935
856 4 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89060396959
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78411
999 _c119131
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