Custer, Mark Kellogg and Young Sitting Bull
I love this film really want the DVD and the Making of and all the goodies!!!!Some time back I read that more articles, books, films etc. had been written about this event than any other in our history - mainly because of the mystery of why the battle happened and then was done in half an hour. I have a collection of books on the battle and on Custer and one thing I learned was that I guess we could call Mark Kellog the first "embed" reporter. Custer was planning to get the Presidential nomination at the Democratic convention in NYC in August - Libbie already had an apartment there - and Mark Kellog was sending all the stories back east for the press. But one avid reader was a young Lakota named Sitting Bull - no relation to the spiritual leader. Sitting Bull's mother worked for a doctor and he taught her son to read and write. Mark Kellog was writing all that Custer was doing, and young SB was reading the papers and translating all the actions to - old Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and Little Wolf - headman of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers - there were even maps - the whole shebang! After the battle in 1888 Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and became a friend of Annie Oakley( he called her Little Sureshot ) and in August 1888 they were playing in sold out shows at what is now Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate Victoria's Golden Jubilee of her 50th year as Queen. On August 30th in Whitechaple a woman was brutally slashed to death...Jack the Ripper had arrived on the scene, too. Poor Crazy Horse missed it all, of course, having been killed at Fort Robinson, by another Lakota, probably a friend of a man named No Water. Crazy Horse ran off with No Water's wife awhile back. Nine months later she pops out a baby girl who looked just like.....well, not at all like No Water....but just like Crazy Horse..... She had light hair like CH and she was still on the Pine Ridge Rez in the 1930's. I think she did have children.
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