Thanks to PILA for posting this wonderful ledger --this is an amazing document with many documentable events. Denise Low

The Black Horse name glyph, small black horse in upper righthand corner, is distinct here. The warrior wounds and counts coup on an armed settler hiding in a grove.

Caption added in cursive pencil: "The battle on wounded knee."

Horse raid under a hail of bullets.

Warrior in a red shirt carries a shield with four tiers of feathers. He counts coup on a fallen enemy as bullets fly.

Cheyenne warrior has the Black Horse name glyph identifying him. He chases an armed white man.

Black Horse (identified by glyph), imprisoned in a building, reaches through a window to two men--one with a fox name glyph (white-tipped tail is distinctive for the red fox; see a similar fox, a gray fox, in Petersen's PLAINS INDIAN ART FROM FT. MARION, page 277) .

Two Indian men sight a steamboat.

Coup represented by lance.

We know that Black Horse was wounded in while inside of a cabin. The Cheyenne historian John Stands in Timber wrote of this event: "Black Horse and two others rode to a cabin and the settlers ran away. Black Horse went down some steps into a storeroom [or root cellar] and someone hiding under a pile of boards there shot him in the leg." On page 75, Panther and Swift Fox rescue of the wounded Black Horse from the cabin. This event took place in 1878 or 1879. Black Horse tried to heal his leg without non-Indian medical treatment for 2 months until the Army surgeon at Fort Keogh, MT attended to his wound. After surgery, the doctor sent fragments of bone that he had removed to the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. These pieces of Black Horse's bone were repatriated to the Northern Cheyenne in 2000 through the efforts of Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), a descendant (Night/Black Horse).

Ross, thanks for that well-sourced comment.

I found this Ledger drawing by Black Horse interesting. It showcases the battle field yet adding color to it.