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Crow Scout Curley’s Escape Report From the Little Big Horn
The Far West steamer carried supplies for Custer’s command and the Crow scout Curley reached the boat with news of the battle. Curley’s dramatic account described Custer’s death, the slaughter of the 7th Cavalry, and his own daring escape through Sioux lines to the Far West, challenging later historians’ doubts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri River
Far West
Custer
Little Big Horn
Reno
Bismarck
Missouri
Grant Marsh
Josephine
Yankton
Fort Lincoln
Dave Campbell
Ben Thompson
George Foulk
John Hardy
Walter “Burleigh
Yellowstone
Terry
Gibbon
Stephen Baker
P. S. Kirtland
Big Horn
Marsh
Big Horn River
Foulk
Curley
Baker
Captain Marsh
Courtney
Drowned Man’s
Wood Yard
Camp Cooke
7Th Cavalry
A. E. Smith
W. W. Cooke
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Joseph Mills Hanson
The
West
Reng
Bradley
Godfrey
Gall Pooh
High Ridge
Gall
White Swan
Yellow Face
Major Moore