Grey Horses Everywhere!

[Tricia]

While I'm relatively new to the subject (only studying LBH) for about a year now, one thing that I have come across in my readings ("Lakota Noon", "Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight," and "The ABC's of LBH"), is the ever-present Indian fascination (and in turn, my own) with the actions of the Grey Horse (E) troop and how in some narratives, it seems to be everywhere! I have read that some of this confusion regarding the actual number of grey horses is because there were several other officers (WW Cooke for one) riding white steeds, and that most of the horses from the 7th's band, horses GAC used from the Supply Depot on, were white--I think you get the picture.

So, how many other white horses of the 7th Cavalry "littered" up the Cheyenne and Sioux' point of view of the action around Last Stand Hill?

Thanks for starting another board--though I am not yet an LBHA member, I look forward to "meeting" many of you through this board. Good luck!

Rice Leyton McLean

[shatonska]

white horse are much easier to be remembered maybe , plus the fact that white horses where with custer and the last stand , i think indian memory is much toward the last moment of the fight , everyone of us tends to remember the most important moment of a fact , now i read a thing that have already read but it gives me to think , de rudio said custer body was surrounded but sorrel horses of C company ! this horses came after the disaster of cahloun and keogh , why only white horse where liberated and these sorrels not ? ipotetesis of liberation of horses before the last stand are a despered move to ease pression , maybe because the remanents of cahloun and keogh where joining , so these sorrels came after the liberation of the white !