Called the "Fighting Cock of the Sioux" by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. It was Gall, enraged by the slaughter of his family, who led a charge across Medicine Tail Ford to attack Custer's main forces on the other side of the Little Bighorn.
Robert W. Larson now sorts through contrasting views that have depicted Gall as a shrewd pragmatist or a shameless opportunist, to determine the real character of this legendary Sious. This first-ever scholarly biography also focuses on the actions Gall took during his final years on the reservation, unraveling his last fourteen years in order to better understand his previous forty.
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Robert W. Larson
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978-0-8061-3830-5
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