Sitting Bull charges corralled wagons on foot.
Ethnographic Notes
A foot charge by Sitting Bull on corralled wagons. This may be a continuation of the action later on the afternoon of 1 September 1865, as the attack on the Sawyers wagon train continued for several hours. Sitting Bull exposes himself, to draw the soldiers' fire, allowing a comrade to dash forward (dotted line of footprints) and count coup on a fallen teamster. Another Lakota, making a similar risk, has been shot through the head and killed.
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Plate No: 12
Page No: 24
Media: lead pencil, crayon, and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches
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Essays
- Red Cloud Agency by Nebraska State Historical Society
- Facsimile of Sitting Bull's Pictorial Autobiography in Smithsonian Museum, Washington by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876
- Sitting Bull - Saville Ledger - Oglala Lakota by Ross Frank
- Saville Investigation by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876
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