Rabu, 16 Agustus 2017

In 1876 George Custer Was Not Scalped, But Yellow Hair Was the ‘First Scalp for Custer’

Scalping was by no means just an Indian thing. Three weeks after the June 25, 1876, fall of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer on the Little Bighorn, two enemies—one Indian, one white— face off in mortal combat. One fires and misses; the other’s bullet finds its mark, and one of the two falls dead. In …

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