Buffalo Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota Warrior

[dimmick]

Greetings.  I come to your forum with a good heart.  I am a new kid on the block so please be patient as I learn how it works.  I am a novice historian who collects a lot of stuff to preserve history, not make a profit from history like some do.  The more I learn the more I need to learn.  It's a domino effect with me.  I live on a small farm in central southwestern Illinois.  Not far from the Koster site where American Indian history goes back 10,000 years.  I went to college at Sheridan, Wyoming and graduated from Montana State, in Bozeman, MT.  I worked pipeline construction in the Western states following college.  I walked in the footsteps of many soldiers and warriors in my younger days.  So much for my brief introduction.

    The reason I am contacting the group is I have questions about a Hunkpapa warrior by the name of Buffalo Bull.  Allegedly, Buffalo Bull was born in 1840 and grew up with Gall.  He joined Gall's Kangiska band as his chief scout.  At the Battle of the Greasy Grass, Buffalo Bull rode down a soldier horse holder in the vicinity of where Calhoun's company L was located.  Some call this area Horseholders Ravine.  He dispatched the soldier, took his revolver and drove the 5 horses back to the Hunkpapa village.  Buffalo Bull told Gall later that he wanted the horses to get married.  After the battle Buffalo Bull followed Gall into Canada.  Gall and his band surrendered in May of 1881  and was loaded on a steamer and taken to Standing Rock Res.  There could be a chance that Buffalo Bull did not make this trip as he may have became sick and stayed in Canada.
    If anyone can comment on the above story right, wrong or indifferent, I'd appreciate hearing your side of the story.  I'm open.

There is much more I need to explain but for now I don't want to clutter my initial inquiry.  

Respectfully,
Dave Dimmick 


    

[dimmick]

Hello on this stormy morning. I'm replying to my own post a month ago.
At the advise of Dietmar I have purchased the Sitting Bull Surrender Census. Wow! what an informative record.
I have decided that the Buffalo Bull I was looking for is simply "Bull" Family #132 with Gall's Hunkpapa Band. Bull would have been 20 years old in 1876. My reasoning is a 20 year old male such as Bull would be more apt to be wanting a wife than a 36 year old male such as Buffalo Bull. Also, the only Buffalo Bull I can find is Minneconjou. My search goes on. I love the hunt.
I am now researching Long Bull, Hunkpapa warrior born around 1833. Family #172. His wife was Clouds. Daughters: White Horse, Red White Man and One They Prayed To. One son Lone Dog.
The reason I am looking for these warriors is I have a Colt SAA revolver that was owned by Bull and traded to Canadian trader Jean Legare before he came back to US from Canada. It was purchased by Rex Thrower from Hardin, MT from the Legare family in 1948. The other revolver (that I virtually stumbled upon) is a percussion 1858 Remington New Model which could have been owned by Long Bull. No other history on this one other than it was sold by a dealer to a friend of mine and I did a trade with him to aquire it. I'm a collector and history nut who gets much satisfaction out of researching these old guns to preserve their history.