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Sioux Indian Snowshoe Escape Toward Canadian Base
Col Shields recounts an escape by a Sioux named Sitting Bull associate in December 1873. He traveled 300 miles in three days across blizzard conditions on snowshoes with no weapons or food. Reaching Woody Mountain in Canada he collapsed then recovered before joining Sitting Bull before the Custer warpath.
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Northwest
Abraham F Lincoln Jr
Woody’ Mountain
Canada
Sitting’ Bull
Custer