AN observation on Today in History, (Evening News, June 25).
Chief Sitting Bull led the Sioux and Cheyenne at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Crazy Horse was second in command.
A total of 225 soldiers were killed, not 264, as reported in your article. Custer, of course, was one of the number.
Crazy Horse was killed by bayonet a year after by a soldier. Sitting Bull was murdered by two Red Indian policemen in 1890, after showing active interest in the "Ghost Dance".
Sitting Bull spent a year with William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) touring with the Wild West Show, appearing on Pitchcroft in 1884 when the show visited Worcester.
MR J BADGER,
Worcester.
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