GDG- Re: another account of Wright's Brigade

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/13/07 3:34:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
mdblough1 at comcast.net writes:

> There is also the problem that the only survivor from portion of the 7th 
> Cavalry that was under Custer at the "Last Stand" was a horse, and the whites 
> did not consider the Native Americans, even those who actually fought in the 
> battle, to be a credible source of information, particularly where their 
> accounts conflicted with the heroic narrative that was being constructed.
> 

Certainly there were a number of elements involved in making difficult the 
collecting of coherent Native American acounts of the LBH.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT