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Hunting for Big Foot, part 9: 31 December 1890 – 1 January 1891
Big Foot cost us (62) sixty-two killed and wounded. –Brig. Gen. J. R. Brooke This day 125 years ago… General Miles began the morning at Chadron, Nebraska, and ended that evening at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, still seeking answers for … Continue reading
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Hunting for Big Foot, part 7: 29 December 1890.
I have a great many rumors of a fight with Big Foot’s party but nothing authentic.–Brig. Gen. J. R. Brooke This day 125 years ago… disarming Big Foot’s band led to bloody carnage. (click to open Hunting for Big Foot homepage) … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Battle of Wounded Knee, Big Foot, Cavalry, Department of the Platte, Forsyth, James Forsyth, John R. Brooke, Lakota, Miniconjou, Nelson A. Miles, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Hunting for Big Foot, part 6: 28 December 1890.
I have just arrested Big Foot and 120 Indians, all well armed and plenty of ammunition in their belts. About 250 women and children are in the party. –Maj. S. M. Whitside This day 125 years ago… the hunt for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Battle of Wounded Knee, Big Foot, Cavalry, Department of the Platte, John R. Brooke, Lakota, Miniconjou, Nelson A. Miles, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Samuel Whitside, Sioux, whitside, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Army at Wounded Knee 