Bloody Knife may have been Custer’s favorite scout, but he was also the sworn enemy of the fearless Hunkpapa Sioux warrior, Gall.
Both men were legendary in the Dakota Territory, Gall for leading deadly attacks on the Arikara and US Army alike, and Bloody Knife for his skills at tracking the Hunkpapa raiders, and foiling them.
Three decades of violence existed between the two warriors-and their enimostity would not end until the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
This installment will follow Bloody Knife from his half-Arikara, half-Hunkpapa beginning, bullied in Gall’s village, Gall’s killing of Bloody Knife’s family members, Bloody Knife’s attempted killing of Gall, Bloody Knife’s his early enlistments with the US Army, Bloody Knife meeting and scouting for George Custer, and the three mains fights of the Yellowstone Campaign.
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Suggested reading:
Where the Rivers Ran Red, Michael Donahue
The Arikara Narrative of Custer’s Campaign, Orin Libby
Jay Cooke’s Gamble, M. John Lubetkin
Gall: Lakota Warrior Chief, Robert W. Larson
The Custer Reader, Paul Andrew Hutton
Bloody Knife: Custer’s Favorite Scout,Ben Innis, edited by Richard Collin
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Little Bighorn Associates
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Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association
custerbattlefield.org
Custer Association of Great Britain
www.english-westerners-society.org.uk
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