Will Comstock - Army scout

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Will Comstock in Harper's illustration from June, 1867

a little article from Old West Magazine 1969 on this US Army Scout and soldiers' guide - William 'Medicine Bill' Averil Comstock (1842-1868). His mother, Sarah Sabina Cooper. was a nice of James Fenimore Cooper, famous American writer.  

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the contest between Buffalo Bill and Comstock in killing bison

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Fort Wallace 

From general G. A. Custer's  Wild life on the Plains and horrors of Indian warfare - the killing of Comstock by the Cheyenns near Fort Hayes in 1868- 

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W.E. Webb's recollections about Comstock from Harper's Monthly Magazine, Nov 1875.

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Sitting Bull - from Harper's Weekly 1876

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let us travel back to the Centennial Year or 1876 wheren this very unusual article with the most unusual art - Lakota Hunkpapa spiritual and political leader Sitting Bull and his drawings - appeared in the July 1876 issue of Harper's Weekly, right after the battles of Rosebud and Little Big Horn.

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perhaps the editors did no anticipate the US Army defeats and Lakota-Cheyenne successes during the initial stages of the so called Centennial Campaign.
That ship had sailed and the rest is history.

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