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for"he l t Ì ehBÌ? r ° r" ' GenCral CUS‘er Wa" ted a11 the scol,ts lined “ P>
lit said lie did not need them all and would take his pick. I was
very glad when he said to me. 'W hite Man Runs Him, get your pony.'
T le great Custer picked five others beside myself. We crossed the
nver and joined the body of Custer’s men. Then Custer said
me
V on are my scout You are to lead ns straight to the Sioux camp'
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'•I told General Custer we should travel by night.
I said we would
X n Inanyf hC° UtS ° f thC S'0UX an<1 also we « o u ld see many other In-
nòt bw they " aV , 7 v V° Uld " Ot kn°"' Whe‘her they were enemies or
not. but they would know us. All this was about 3 o ’clock in the
afternoon.
said we would have to march until nearly sunup before
we got into the country of the Sioux.
"We started, but went slowly. When the sun again showed its face
r i ? J°;ie ,2() s’11’les and had hidden ourselves in a valley. I went to
a lull and looked for a long while.
_'We traveled another night and rested in the daytime and another
and another, and on the sixth day we came to the Little Big Horn and
ro 1, a high point we saw the camp of the Sioux. We saw the smoke
f their «res first, but we could see the tepees and the ponies too
him th e " a m t, T r
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nm the camp. This was early in the morning. The troops had
c Z e r X d T r Ck’ jUSt C° ffee' bW " e SC° UtS had ' - » " «
Then
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R™ ° g° ‘ back ° ” OUr side’ ‘»e Sioux gathered on -,
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' With General Custer and his men we made a half circle a Ioim
one. and then we doubled back and I put him on the edge of the Sioux
n d P;hn g t J " " the riVer' The rhCT ba" ks » - e full aÌ.d thè troops
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the Indians were facing each other within easy range The firing
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could not have forded though, and the firing grew hotter
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“ bttle ‘°" 'ard 3 b° gback sort of »»I- There tlieGe, :
eral ordered Ins men to drop from their horses Every f o u rti, „ ,» „ 7 t
tour horses and this weakened the force. It was now nearly ù
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General Custer was at the top of the little ridge.
Here was the