Wooden Leg
A Warrior Who Fought Custer
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Big Ten Open BooksLanguage
EnglishAbstract
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. As an old man in his seventies, Wooden Leg related the story of his life and the Little Bighorn battle in interviews with Thomas B. Marquis (1869–1935), formerly an agency physician for the Northern Cheyennes.
Keywords
Indigenous North AmericansISBN
9781496245120Publication date and place
Lincoln, 1962Grantor
Classification
Relating to Indigenous peoples
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