The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-18
STORY OF SITTING BULL,
More rFaIps Than cDuraSs-1ho SIoSt
CTnfty Iutlinn Of Modern Times.

More HFaIns Than COuFaSs-1ho SIoSt
Crafty Iutiinn Of Modern Times.
Chicago TnJuHs.
Although not graa: war Chief as he
Indians underntand and apply the term,
Sitting Bull was the most prominent and
influential blanket Indian in America.
His supremacy vas due to his head, FOR
be lRcked-being possessed o. brains
that insane courage which ChaFaoteIises
most Of his people. Fully approaching
danger. although by no means the
co ward or "squaT-tnan" that the news.
papers generally describe him to be, he
pereT unnecessarily exposed himself
lie had much e1ecu tive ability and could
plan campaign and execute retreat
! with equal facility. He did his fighting
much as the great Generals OF later days
have done, from po9ito& !p tie rear.
His C0mmaaGs were carried to the front
by runneTsi that is TO say, when he had
any orders to piye, As rule, after a
battle had begun, the old chief inter
Tered but little With aRyic9 or directions,
trusting TO hIs lieutennnts 10 carry ont
the few Instructions given in adraH &C, or
take The Consequences.
Sitting Bulliuherited the chieitai hip
of branch OF the Sioux nation from hiB
father. He WAS mirarle.HOrker or
medicine man also, and by plying
upon the cIedulity OF the Sioux with
his science and being an adept iu the
crude political work OF the redmen, was
twenty years ago the acknowledged
power oi the nation, although such well
known Indians rs Red CtOnd and Crsz7
Horse ahd such miiior chiefs as i,ain.ir.
the-tRc tail, and broad Trail, were al
timer inclined to calf the question OF
leadership into arbitration. Sitting Bull,
however, was not 10 be brought into an
argument, physical or otherwise, to
maintain his right TO position which
he could hold by aboriginal wire.pulliug
and chicane. To the day OF his death
he WAS the principal chief OF all the
Sioux and leader OF 5000 braves who al
all tiues Tera ready, Ct !:Is sommand,
to commit any crimeirom' murder up or
down. As madeleine man no had the
sQuaws OF His trI6a abIect!y suGgcrvi--.
and through them wee - .,.,.t :, ,,,a;m ,r
....,ng control Of the bucka.
THE FORT BUF0RD RAID Or 1866.
The frat that was known Of Sitting
Bull among the whites was at the time
OF terrible raid he led near Fort Bu-
ford, in 1866, when the commanding OF.
fcey there shot his vile 10 prevent her
iGllin. into the hands OF the Sioux,
whose tortures would have been worse
than death. From that time until 1875
he was known as maraudcs, stealing
horses and cattle, aud very ingenious in
eluding pursuit. IN January, lSTG, the
Interior Department decided 10 turn Sit
ting Bull and his men over TO the War
Department. His leadership was draw-
ling the young men away from tho
agencies to the war-path. The following
summer occurred the massacre on the
Little Big Horn, where Custer, 4is9bsy-
ing the orders OF Gen. Terry, and failing
to be reinforced by Reno, iell with his
800 men. This battle was q victory for
Crazy HoIse, Gall and Crow King,
rather than Sitting Bull. They we're the
warrlors. but the lightning tha. struck
terror to CusteE's horses and rendered
elaush possible was claimed by the
crafty old chief az due To his medicine
work.
Sitting Bull didn't know where he
was born, or when. lie was, however,