jody
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Post by jody on Sept 5, 2017 12:52:09 GMT -6
During Reno's siege, I recall reading that someone, (Benteen maybe?) said that the Indians were close enough to "throw arrows at us." That always seemed to me to be a strange thing to do. Was it a figure of speech? Was to "throw arrows" the same as "shoot arrows"? Gunfighters used the term to "throw down" meaning to draw their pistols to fight, so. Then I found this: library.centerofthewest.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/MS165/id/380/rec/451So they could, indeed, throw arrows. Jody |
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Post by noggy on Sept 7, 2017 2:20:54 GMT -6
During Reno's siege, I recall reading that someone, (Benteen maybe?) said that the Indians were close enough to "throw arrows at us." That always seemed to me to be a strange thing to do. Was it a figure of speech? Was to "throw arrows" the same as "shoot arrows"? Gunfighters used the term to "throw down" meaning to draw their pistols to fight, so. Then I found this: library.centerofthewest.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/MS165/id/380/rec/451So they could, indeed, throw arrows. Jody Hi
The warriors` way of fighting was/is strange to us, and was much about showing of. Personally, I`d never run up to a Taliban soldier, smack him in the face and then run back to safety, yet such things were about as good as it got for a Plains Warrior. I could imagine that being able to get so Close to the enemy that you could throw an Arrow or a rock at them and the make your escape is something that would be worthy of a high five from your buddies afterwards. Maybe what went on here?
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Post by herosrest on Sept 7, 2017 17:05:53 GMT -6
During Reno's siege, I recall reading that someone, (Benteen maybe?) said that the Indians were close enough to "throw arrows at us." That always seemed to me to be a strange thing to do. Was it a figure of speech? Was to "throw arrows" the same as "shoot arrows"? Gunfighters used the term to "throw down" meaning to draw their pistols to fight, so. Then I found this: library.centerofthewest.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/MS165/id/380/rec/451So they could, indeed, throw arrows. Jody Hi
The warriors` way of fighting was/is strange to us, and was much about showing of. Personally, I`d never run up to a Taliban soldier, smack him in the face and then run back to safety, yet such things were about as good as it got for a Plains Warrior. I could imagine that being able to get so Close to the enemy that you could throw an Arrow or a rock at them and the make your escape is something that would be worthy of a high five from your buddies afterwards. Maybe what went on here?
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jody
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Post by jody on Sept 8, 2017 14:13:46 GMT -6
It was indeed Benteen. From "The Custer Myth" by W.A. Graham, in the section "A transcript of Benteen's Narrative, page 182, top right: "...we dashed into the into the unsuspecting savages who were amusing themselves by throwing clods of dirt, arrows by hand, and otherwise, for simply pure cussedness among us..."
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Post by herosrest on Sept 9, 2017 7:34:52 GMT -6
It was indeed Benteen. From "The Custer Myth" by W.A. Graham, in the section "A transcript of Benteen's Narrative, page 182, top right: "...we dashed into the into the unsuspecting savages who were amusing themselves by throwing clods of dirt, arrows by hand, and otherwise, for simply pure cussedness among us..." Jody Do we know if Company H had their baseball bats online? |
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