Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858 1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations. He tells of growing up on the Great Plains and learning how to be a Cheyenne man. We hear from him about Cheyenne courtship, camp life, spirituality, and hunting; of skirmishes with Crows, Pawnees, and Shoshones; and of the Cheyennes valiant but doomed resistance against the army of...
Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858 1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who foug...