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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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Hunting for Big Foot, part 5: 27 December 1890.
I am doing everything with the means at hand that mortal man can do to accomplish the end you desire. –Maj. S. M. Whitside This day 125 years ago… day four of the hunt for Big Foot saw Major Whitside … 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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Grabill’s Fighting 7th Officers in Color
Recently a cousin of mine, Amy Gigliotti, took up the hobby of colorizing old photographs. She kindly agreed to work on John C. H. Grabill’s photograph, “The Fighting 7th Officers.” After three weeks of diligence and painstaking detail, Amy graciously … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 