Marble Hill press., 1921-11-24

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ln-tse Farv pi.. uas 20 ran h" m.''- .a 'H'a.
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rvsuarkahle run lu al history
Ush. whai q l.sr4s.!Ha uAt chapter has ra''+A
nu over ,h. W,.t Trr "a. Wet VII a''"F ."
through tslEfa. ab-.ui custer AF' 'hr tait" %
lItfis ms Horn Hlycr June - l,'H
Sos u esur~s anyouc ~ has "''r 'ta'F'"'
"a snBwsha,s rUA ha. t"vn 90 S'uih I'AA'.a
hiitsari has l-sifisr 0qiulna as p" th" ifn'A 9.
a.. lsAi.n.. s,ury Incidentally ihr ~"rjs rr'"T1
f,< hundred ril,e run ~ ~ ~ ~ lln~"F'r ~"
.or, q, Hala.in tho Facv s.rv~s doubt" Vnris'."
II ,r.k.. lntsrrsuuE ryatlDs aut t has hr"H.h'
,at ..,rr. reliable facts oyuc,rnHs %" legend tAi
,hs siau1 rhles hoasfci hat te would ~" 'H''''
ana rat b.. heart aaI actually 80 cary 'a' "'
bo~s'
t-r,-,'f-s q, 'tr story 'oli - Colonel shields
In u. sioux 20 Isrcinh"r. lN'i - - "h'''
v.r.,r,., ~ith l-1r'lou u, h.s tribe ~ 'h' ~fhh3
a., K.-.s a.rDr,. about - mile. -"u'h - ~"
,s.--E Eatutu.'h, Foe, sot into an alteration
v,,h f,rr into ugu AMI Al'ri r"' y 'h'fa I'm
.nIf ,,.f.r.. q. 10 claimed lie was rapiufv1. .aN
.o 20 N. agency aBi thrown into JAIL "a tom.
u.,-ury unfinished los structure without H'-r
Th.rc we slN or eght inches ~ sa"N on the
ground that had blown 10 through 'he "i-'ntnsS ~
the walls aah Tho prisoners ""op means w A''P
ing from trrs-flus Vas O. ke"p walking N'nHi"huS
.t.,,,, M. ru-ssn TIT. cruelty g. Indians "as prac-
,iei on IN. ORDER. ~ trncral Custer then Ia com
r,.na AZ FORT Lincoln. near NswsrrE. General
Custer or,,svi that ~ alive. Rain tn the Fs'N
.hould b. thrown luto JAN ami punished 80 sever"
IN a. ps-sthlr I-.utin. the time "hru IN" o"oF''
marital could ~ cooNrucd and the cu'pr' as
xs.ei ot 10 a legal way And this meant ~ c"afS''
that h. would h~ hung or shot" When ihls onlrr
x.. read 70 the prisoner Rain Tn th,~facc s~"ro
Vengeance on General Custer as thc author n his
.-~srnvS He sNnrr that If he ever s,E out he
yrnsld nm Custer IN hanhto-hani hgh'. II pos
ulhle and u not. then at longer rnng", that ne
would ca, his hear, cut sud carry Il away as q
trophy
some tim. before N" Custer massacre Rain
1n.thsracr escupsvi frorn his pr's"n ~iih the as
.ts,aprr n two friends Who handed him a pair
Of snow shoes and blanket 10 which pi"c" OF
dried buffalo meat vas roed" The buffalo meat
fall ON, as he adjusted the blanket. and So he
startea out into the desert tn the midst OF
howilng hllrsard at nightfall, with only on"
btsnket without a m0uthful ~ food without
weapon Of any stnd. when the Temperature was
probably forty degrees below Eero and the "'hd
was hlowing thirty miles an hour. lie told me
the story of his great and will tell II TO
yua In his words ms nearly as can re'hh
them" reports Coionel shields
y asked him, through an interpreter, Where
did you go when you escaped from the jail at
Standing Rockr He said
~T went to the camp of my frienis, at the base
os Woody mountain. In Canada
I -Bow far ts thatf l asked.
-srhree hundred miles the crow i,eS'
-How long did II take you to make the runY
"~rhrre days and nlghts.
"Do you mean to tell me that q man can run
a hundred mites In twenty.four hours, snow.
shees and another hundred In the next twenty
four and another hundred In the ncxtr
"He said. I did It.
How often did you sleep on the wayr
81 didn't sleep at all. knew dared not sleep
dared not even sit down to rest. for II had.
urdss the terrible fatigue and hunger and strain
frosn which | suffered, would have lost conscious
ness a stupor would have overtaken me. and
wo,ld have frozen solid in half an hour l was
fiecsna FROM the persecution, the wrongs, the out
rasrs inflicted on me and my people by the white
men. I vas going to my friends and had deter