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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Rosebud Creek battle - 1876-2025

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Rosebud Creek battle -  June 17, 1876 - in 2021 I posted some native, Cheyenne, Lakota etc, warriors' accounts of the battle, where general Crook aided by Washakie and Plenty Coups was defeated by Crazy Horse, the blotahunka of the Oglala  Lakota.

Today I want to commemorate the battle and its participants with the prints from American media of the period.

the Lakota-Cheyenne allies would fight another grand battle at the Greasy Gras/ Little Big Horn river in 8  days. 
Here a presentation by the Rosebud Battlefield State Historical Park - via archive world library.

Stanley Vestal, Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull - could be borrowed from https://archive.org library 

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Comanche & Bloody Knife - books to borrow from archive.org

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- visiting Archive the world library - 

 

a short entry - there comes early summer or the  time of the year when I usually think about the famous Centennial Campaign of 1876AD, with the most famous battle of Little Big Horne/ Greasy Grass in the center of this commemoration. The battle anniversary just passed on the 25th of this month.

I recently did  discover a book by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence about the horse that served as a war mount for Myles Keogh  of the 7th Cavalry- His Very Silence Speaks, Comanche, the Horse Who Survived Custer's Last Stand. - The book, published by Wayne University Press in 1989, is available for borrowing from the Archive. There is another book on Comanche, by Barron Brown - available eg on Amazon.

 

Also, another book is available for your pleasure - authored by Ben Innis titled Bloody Knife, Custer's Favorite Scout. (1994 edition published by Smoky Water Press). Bloody Knife was an Arikara warrior (from a Hunkpapa Lakota father and Arikara mother) and a US Army scout who died fighting the Lakota Sioux at Little Big Horn.

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