eric
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Post by eric on Apr 2, 2017 12:08:50 GMT -5
Greetings everyone...need some help with an oral history/tradition about Lame White Man and his death at the Little Big Horn battle. I've always followed John Stands In Timber's narrative as the most accurate. One of White Bird's paintings (in the St. Louis Art Museum) shows a cavalry formation being attacked and one of the warriors is dressed only in a blanket and has loose hair. I've long thought that figure represented Lame White Man. I was contacted this past week by a writer wanting to know more about the blue cavalry jacket Lame White Man put on from a dead soldier and then was killed by mistake by some Lakotas thinking he was an army scout. I've never heard that story until now. The gentleman said it's in an oral account from Yellow Nose. I've searched everything I have and then some and find nothing like this story. Any help as to the location of this account is appreciated. Thanks and have a great day! Regards, Rod... Hello Rod, Mayby a bit late since your post is almost a year old. I don't no where the account is supposed to be, but I guess it is mor likely in reference to the The Elkhorn scraper warriors being called blue soldiers for the soldiers coats the would wear (ccaptured after the fetterman fight), Lame white man was one of the societies chiefs. Wooden Leg who found Lame white man does not mention this, he states " he was still wearing his best clothing", that does not mean it was not a blue soldiers jacket, but I would guess if it were he might have mentioned it as a possible cause of him being scalped by the Sioux, which he doesn't, merely stating that he may have been scalped erroneously for being found among the soldiers that were killed in the first counter charge. |
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Post by rodthomas on Apr 3, 2017 17:30:23 GMT -5
Eric, thanks and so far I've run out of sources past the last one noted in 1902. I'm focused at the moment on finishing up the White Swan biography manuscript and the Lame White Man question is at the top of the list of things to get back into when the book is done.
Hope all is well and please have a great day!
Regards, Rod...
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