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Chief Gall Short the Hunkpapa chief who led the Lakota in a long war against the United States.
Just a side note....
I’m about halfway through Nathaniel Philbrick’s excellent new book “The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn”. It’s quite a read, includes a lot of maps and references, and I’m taking my time with this one.
Philbrick takes the numerous different written accounts and actual interviews with some of the Warriors who were at the battle, and comes out with a distinctly different view of George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull. His premise is that most of us have an impression of Custer that is primarily driven by the Dustin Hoffman movie “Little Big Man” (there really was a Warrior at the battle by that name...) that portrays Custer as demented and totally incompetent, which is anything but true.
Custer was the greatest Cavalry Officer the Union Army ever produced in the Civil War, and was also considered the Country’s greatest Indian fighter; and when news of his death at the Little Big Horn came right at the Centennial, it was the 911 event of that time and rocked the Nation. How was it possible that our greatest Indian fighter was slaughtered with all of his men??
Of course Wounded Knee is widely viewed as retaliation for the massacre at the Little Big Horn...
Good reading, and available at Costco. (I sweat I have bought more good books there over the years than from any other source.)
Now back to our regular broadcast...
Chief Gall Short the Hunkpapa chief who led the Lakota in a long war against the United States.
They made a movie about the book: http://www.youtube.com/user/DutchGirliePetra#p/u/69/6Ai56CThj8o
Ever see it?