John 3:16

They carved a cross into his chest and covered him with a buffalo skin and other trinkets, as barbaric as that sounds it was a honour not bestowed on many on the plains, brave kid

Thank you sir!

Looks like you have some good content on your channel. I'll be checking your stuff out. I love good ole Wyoming History. I live in Laramie & my cabin is 2 years older than the Wyoming Territorial Prison which I can see from my house.

He was a brave man

A certain basterd with the same first name probably didn't help his cause either

well said, mine own :)

I’m doing my part. Glad you liked the video!

That legit means a lot to me. Thank you 🙏

Thank you for sharing your uniquely personal connection. History is always closer to us than we think.

Get a clue. The native warriors mutilated the whites' bodies *_in retaliation_* for what the whites did at the Sand Creek Massacre, where most of the deaths were of unarmed noncombatants.

Thank you, I’m glad you dig it. I wish I could tell these stories more often 🙏

I visited the Kidder Massacre site last month (March-2023). It’s a very bleak & desolate place.

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I’m glad you got something out of it

Super cool. People like you are the reason I do this. Make sure to show them part 2

I agree.

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My pleasure, thanks!

Thank you, I appreciate it

You make an interesting comparison. In Tom Custer’s case, he might have been recognized by some of the warriors (he had arrested some a few years prior) and so his body’s treatment might have had a personal, vengeful element to it. Very cool point, glad you’re watching!

I'm a Dakota I had family had the little bighorn, I don't know what happened exactly but I can tell you Custer was shot trying to cross a Fjord. And about an hour later he and all the men with him were dead. The fight with Custer and his men was over quickly. It lasted as long as a man can eat lunch. A group of warriors who took a suicide pact to fight until dead attacked the men on last stand hill and broke the defense. After that it was what my people call a buffalo run. These men had no time to reload their single shot weapons and it was a close quarters hand to hand blood bath. So the state of Thomas Custers body was most likely due to a horrific 30 mins to 45 mins of sheer violence. It would explain why most of the men were "mutilated" when in fact it was a very very horrible and violent end. Some men were mutilated after death yes, but I don't think Thomas Custers body was, I think the state he was found in was how he died. All the scalping and stuff didn't happen on last stand hill where that hand to hand blood bath happened. All that gore was due to the horrific fighting that happened in 30 to 45 mins. Some men did manage to shoot themselves, but like I said it was a very horrible and very violent. Yes some of my people were about that life but I can guarantee the men on last stand hill were not mutilated that's just unfortunately how they met their end. 200 men?? Against 24 suicide warriors, and 2000 warriors in the fight with another 5000 to 8000 in reserves. By the way we knew who was attacking the camp we had been waiting for it for days. But back to last stand hill, you had about 800 warriors on Custer with the rest on Reno hill. Meaning you had at least 800 other warriors charge in after the suicide warriors charge. Reno and Benteen don't know what happened, they were too busy fighting their own battle. And the last of the fighting wasn't on last stand hill, it was in the fields going towards deep ravine. Conveniently left open for the soldiers to retreat to into more waiting warriors. Those 28 men are somewhere in that ravine, they were just left there because that was the last of the alive men. So really the last stand of Custers men is in deep ravine. There are many last stands all over the battlefield too.

That could explain why Thomas Custers body was "mutilated" even though he fought bravely. Each those men were all fighting a fight that was 15 to 1 odds. There will be definite overkill with that much people coming for you. I'm not making excuses just sharing oral history from my side.

@@JackDiamond21 Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the Lakota and Cheyenne oral history was ignored for far too long. There's a similarity with the Anglo-Zulu war, were the British were horrified by the Zulu ritual disembowelment of dead soldiers. Looked at from the Zulu point of view it made perfect sense to cleanse themselves and honour was to be gained from 'washing their spears.' Obviously the British weren't too gentle in their treatment of injured Zulu's either. War is brutal.

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His wife did not go to the fort with him and word is that Metzger didn’t even tell his family in the Old Country he had gotten married. Glad you liked the video!

Awesome thank you! 🙏

Thanks Mr. Shmoe! 🙏

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

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That place is legit, for sure. Glad you liked the video!

I suppose he sort of got it, from his opponents

I haven’t heard of that book, but roads converge when you’re getting close to the truth. Glad you liked it!

I would definitely recommend the novel to anyone interested in the Fetterman fight. The author strikes a very good balance between engaging storytelling and historical accuracy. Being released last year, it also attempts a more revised, less anti-fetterman perspective. Anyways, thanks again for the good content.

Thanks! 🙏

Apparently Fetterman wasn't any better if Carrington and others are to be believed.