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The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull

By: Stanley Vestal, Raymond J. Demallie (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 June 1984

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Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against whites and other Indians for more than a decade when he fought the greatest battle of his life.

On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, five troops of the U. S. Seventh Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer rode into the valley of the Little Big Horn River, confidently expecting to rout the Indian encampments there. Instead, the cavalry met the gathered strength of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, who did not run as expected but turned the battle toward the soldiers. White Bull charged again and again, fighting until the last soldier was dead. The battle was Custer's Last Stand, and White Bull was later referred to as the warrior who killed Custer.

In 1932 White Bull related his life story to Stanley Vestal, who corroborated the details, from other sources and prepared this biography. "All that I told him is straight and true," said White Bull. His story is a matchless account of the life of an Indian warrior.

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"It is, indeed a fascinating chronicle which Stanley Vestal tells."-New York Time * New York Times *

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Foreword	p. v
Notes	p. xxii
Preface	p. xxv
Acknowledgments	p. xxix
The Training of a Warrior 1849-1865	p. 1
The Son of a Chief	p. 3
Captive Butte	p. 9
Ree Horse-Race	p. 18
Eight Are Killed	p. 27
On the Warpath 1865-1876	p. 37
First in War	p. 39
One-Hundred-White-Men-Killed	p. 50
The Wagon-Box Fight	p. 70
Sun Dance	p. 84
Fetches-The-Woman is Punished	p. 98
Chapter XThe Bull in the Snow	p. 108
The Fight with the Flatheads	p. 117
The Jealous Wife	p. 125
Bullet-Proof	p. 131
Tails for Moccasins	p. 145
Fighting-In-Trenches	p. 154
White Bull Thinks of His Mother	p. 163
Crow Horse	p. 169
Colonel Reynolds Attacks	p. 177
The 'three Stars' Battle on the Rosebud	p. 185
Long Hair Custer is Killed	p. 191
White Deer is Rescued	p. 206
Surrender	p. 217
The White Man's Road 1876-1933	p. 229
White Bull Captures the Utes	p. 243
The Happiest Day	p. 251
Appendix	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 277
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