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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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possible manner. Whatwas said and told about the white mans strange powers in the Indian villagesnobody knows, but the results proved that the plan was a complete success. TheIndians had no desire to oppose a foe who had borrowed the lightning from theheavens and was in league with the Whispering Spirit, and they surrendered tothe number of fully 2,000. As has been previously stated, the military operations which preceded and led upto the incident at the fort were equally successful. They were undertaken primar-ily to stop the Sioux from stealing horses. As a horse thief the Indian has nosuperior. To him stealing a horse is a sport he has developed to the degree of a fineart. To make it more exciting the horse must belong to another tribe; to steal itfrom a fellow-tribesman would be a crime punishable with death. Without goinginto details of the Indians manner of stealing, it may safely be asserted that uponthe planning and execution of a horse-stealing raid as much care, cunning and
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— 267 — intelligence are bestowed as upon any enterprise in which the warrior interests him-self. In summer the young brave who is about to pay a visit to a hostile campgarbs himself green, paints himself green, and rides a roan pony, so as to make him-self less conspicuous on the grass-covered prairie. In the winter, when snow coversthe ground, his face is white, his dress is white, and his mount is white. He sneaksand moves stealthily and cautiously, watches and observes, and finally at the oppor-tune time, mostly at midnight, when sleep prevails in the hostile camp, dashes intothe village, gathers the ponies and makes his escape. Then begins a mad race forhome and safety, and triumph and joy reign when he reaches the tents of his tribeand boastingly exhibits his stolen animals as evidence of his prowess. Sitting Bull and his band, after the massacre of General Custer, had taken refugeon Canadian territory just north of the boundary line. For a time he and his followers kept qui

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