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Death recalls Custer rescue of two captives from Cheyenne
An 88-year-old Kansas woman, Sarah Brooks, recalls being a teen captive of Cheyenne Indians in 1868 and her rescue by Gen. George A. Custer and the Seventh Cavalry. The piece also recounts the 1874 rescue of the German sisters by Gen. Miles and the long lives of the rescued women.
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Kansas
Gen. Custer
Elmo Scott Watson
Union
America
Kentucky
George A. Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Sarah Brooks
Sarah White
Benjamin White
Wisconsin
Granny Creek
Republican River
Sarah
Mr. White
Anna Brewster . Morgan
Solomon Valley
Crawford
Nineteenth
Kansas Volunteers
Sheridan
Ter
Custer
Brewster
Mrs. Morgan
Fort Cobb
North Fork
Red River
Wheeler County
Texas
Medicine Arrow
Rock Forehead
Little Robe
Medicine
Arrow
Seventh
Cook
Plains
Chief Little Robe
Maud Muller
Fort Dodge
Morgan
Fort Hays
Kansas State
Miss White
Nelson A. Miles
John German
Blue Ridge
Lydia
Stephen Wise German
Rebecca Jane
Katherine
Joanna
Sophia
Julia Arminda
Nancy Adelaide
Addie
Colorado
German
Fort Wallace
Gray Beard
Miles
Frank D. Baldwin
Julia
Stone Calf
Pecos River
New Mexico
Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie
Cheyenne Agency
Indian Territory
Fort Leavenworth
Frank Andrews
Bern
Kan
Julia Brooks
Humboldt
Neb
Katherine Swerdfefer
Atas