Identifier: storyofmontana00foga_0 (find matches)
Title: The story of Montana
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Fogarty, Kate Hammond, -1936
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Publisher: New York and Chicago, The A. S. Barnes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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le hill at the right.Near him was the body of his brother. Captain TomCuster. The Chief Long Hair, as Custer was calledby the Indians, was not scalped as were the others,nor was his body mutilated in any w^ay. Manyreasons have been given by historians for this, butno one really knows why the Indians did not muti-late his body. It was thought at first that theIndians had left him thus out of respect for hisbravery shown, not only in this battle but in manyothers, from whence he had always before returnedvictorious. Rain-In-The-Face, a Sioux chief, tells usdifferently. He it was who killed Captain TomCuster, the Generals brother in the fight, and toreout his heart and ate it. This he had threatened todo, when Captain Custer had had him imprisonedfor murdering two men connected with the reserva-tion some time before. Rain-In-The-Face said thatno man was too brave to be scalped, and the reasonthat General Custer was not so mutilated was be-cause the Indians did not recognize him and could
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184 THE SOLDIERS IN MONTANA not find his body. Before starting the campaign,Custer, for the first time, had had his long yellowhair, which had given him his name Chief Long Hairamong the Indians, cut short, and this was one reasonwhy he was not recognized. He also wore a suit ofbuckskin, like a frontier hunter, and bore on hisperson no insignia of rank. E. S. Paxsons Painting. — Several paintings havebeen made of the Custer massacre, but only one isa true picture from a strictly historical sense. Thatis one by the Montana artist, E. S. Paxson, whomakes a specialty of Indian subjects. He studiedthe matter thoroughly for years and talked withIndians who were in the battle, and learned fromthem as far as possible the exact positions of theprincipal victims in this great tragedy. The lateColonel W. S. Brackett, a nephew of the first com-manding ofiicer of Fort Ellis, who knew many oflScersand men who served in the army in that campaign,and made a study of it, and of the battle, has stat

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