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Angelique Fuentes at Jun 15, 2020 04:19 PM

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Herald. Apl 22
SLAYER OF TOM CUSTER.
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RAIN-IN-THE-FACE COMES TO TOWN.
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The Willy Sioux Who Displayed Reckless Bravery in the Slaughter of the Seventh at the Little Big Horn Will See the Fair.
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Learning upon two crutches, with the whirling snow pelting his long black hair and the eagle feathers he had worn in the scalp-look ever since he left the Missouri, was a sturdy old Sioux warrior in Buffalo Bill's Indian village in Sixty-third street yesterday afternoon. There was nothing in the appearance of the crippled Indian to indicate that he was more than one of the commonest of coffee coolers- a set of beggars always to be found about the post traders' stores on a western reservation. Within the park a hundred Brules, in paint and feathers, were riding like demons and yelling shrilly as the pace of their ponies grew faster. But the old man on crutches, who stood alone at the gate, gave no outward sign that he was pleased or interested. He clutched a blue blanket at his breast and shook his massive head from time to time as the snow settled too thickly about his ears.

The cripple was Rain-in-the-Face, who seventeen years ago was notorious for his bloody work on the Little Big Horn, when General Custer and his gallant troopers of the Seventh fell and were scalped almost to a man. Sitting Bull, whom General Miles has called the "Red Napolean,"

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Herald. Apl 22
SLAYER OF TOM CUSTER.
_________
RAIN-IN-THE-FACE COMES TO TOWN.
__________
The Willy Sioux Who Displayed Reckless Bravery in the Slaughter of the Seventh at the Little Big Horn Will See the Fair.
___________

Learning upon two crutches, with the whirling snow pelting his long black hair and the eagle feathers he had worn in the scalp-look ever since he left the Missouri, was a sturdy old Sioux warrior in Buffalo Bill's Indian village in Sixty-third street yesterday afternoon. There was nothing in the appearance of the crippled Indian to indicate that he was more than one of the commonest of coffee coolers- a set of beggars always to be found about the post traders' stores on a western reservation. Within the park a hundred Brules,