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Post by George Mabry on Jul 3, 2007 12:15:09 GMT -6
Jack Palance was a good one. My favorite role of his was Jekyll and Hyde.
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Post by herosrest on Nov 9, 2013 17:53:51 GMT -6
Walter M. Camp interview with George W. Wylie, October 16, 1910, Junction City, Kansas 1When Benteen's battalion was approaching the point where Reno retreated up, Wylie saw the last part of Reno's retreat out of the valley. Just as Weir started toward Custer on June 25, the troop met Billy Cross coming in opposite direction from that in which the troop was moving (that is, Cross was coming south along the bluff) with a handkerchief tied around his head. 2Soon after Benteen joined Reno on hill, Capt. Weir started to open up communication with Custer, and the troop marched out along bluff until came to a jumping-off place from which could look down upon the hollow of Medicine Tail coulee. Men dismounted and put horses behind Edgerly peaks and behind hill to east, and men formed line over this hill from east to west. Seeing many horsemen over on distant ridge with guidons flying, Weir said, "That is Custer over there," and mounted up ready to go over, when Sgt. Flanagan3 said: "Here, Captain, you had better take a look through the glasses; I think those are Indians." Weir did so and changed his mind about leaving the place. Accordingly the men were dismounted and the horses led behind the hill.The Indians soon came up in great force, and the men were mounted up and started back along the ridge in column of twos on a walk. After going some distance the Indians had arrived on Edgerly peaks and opened up a hot fire. Cpl. Wylie had a ball shot through his canteen, the staff of the guidon he was carrying was shot off, the flag dropped, and Vincent Charley was shot and fell off his horse. Wylie got down to pick up the guidon. At the same time Edgerly was stooping over Charlie and told him to lie quiet and he (Edgerly) would return and rescue him. Here Edgerly had difficulty in mounting his horse. This was some distance south of Edgerly peaks (and probably about opposite the ravine on east side of bluffs in which the cedar trees are growing). Says no other troop got as far in the advance as D troop. Does not recall seeing Cpl. Foley ride down pursued by Indians and never heard of it. This refers to what Flanagan told me. 1. Camp MSS, field notes, Walter Mason Camp, box 2, folder 9, Little Bighorn, Battle of 1876, Lilly Library. George W. Wylie, born in New Orleans, enlisted on March 17, 1873. He was in the Little Bighorn River fight in 1876 and the Nez Perce campaign in 1877 and was wounded on September 30, 1877, in the Snake Creek fight. He was in the Wounded Knee Creek fight on December 30, 1890. He retired as a first sergeant and resided in Junction City, Kansas.
2. William Cross was a half-blood Dakota Sioux scout in the Sioux campaign of 1876. His story, as told to a news correspondent, is in the Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1876. Cross died in 1894 on the Fort Peck Reservation, near Culbertson, Montana.
3. James Flanagan was a sergeant in Company D. He was born in County Clare, Ireland. He served in the Civil War. He died in 1921 in Mandan, North Dakota.select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6091EF73F5B137B93C1A8178CD85F428784F9
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Post by herosrest on Nov 24, 2013 18:01:02 GMT -6
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Post by herosrest on Dec 2, 2013 22:25:28 GMT -6
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Post by herosrest on Jan 6, 2014 18:26:18 GMT -6
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