The Wooden Leg: Warrior Who Fought Custer

by Thomas B. Marquis and Wooden Leg

Book Overview

Wooden Leg was one of the sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Sioux against Custer at the legendary Battle of the Little Bighorn. As an old man in his seventies, he related his story of the battle to Thomas B. Marquis, formerly an agency physician for the Northern Cheyennes, in scores of interviews, illustrating his statements with drawings and maps. Some aspects of Wooden Leg's account have provoked controversy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803251246
• ISBN13: 9780803251243
• Release Date: January 1931
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Wooden Leg is an interesting view of the Battle of the Little Big Horn...

I have read this book before. I keep loaning it out or giving it to other people. This book is mostly told to a sociologist by Wooden Leg; however, he refers to other Native American men who support the version of events as Wooden Leg told them.