Little Big Horn: The Untold Story

[Diane Merkel]

The History International cable channel will be showing "The Little Big Horn: The Untold Story" on Saturday night, September 26, at 8:00 pm Central.

We'll look with fresh eyes at the infamous battle, using over two decades of research by Dr. Herman J. Viola, Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, whose close friendship with Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, grandson of one of Custer's six Crow scouts, afforded him unique access to the Native-American community's insights.

That two-hour program will be followed by "Comanche Warriors":

They invented the swirling, circling wagon train attack. They took captives...or decorated their lances with the scalps of those who fought back. From a ragtag band of scavengers, the Comanche transformed themselves into superior warriors by becoming the first tribe to tame the wild mustangs. In less than a generation, the Comanche became the world's greatest horsemen. For more than 150 years, the Comanche of the Southwest were ferocious raiders who stuck terror into the hearts of the plains tribes, Mexican villagers, and frontier settlers. They became the most feared and powerful tribe to follow the massive buffalo herds across the American heartland. We detail the motivation, tactics, weapons, and experiences of these nomadic Native Americans known as the "Lords of the Southern Plains".

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[markland]

While channel-grazing after the KU game this afternoon, I managed to catch the massacre scene from "They Died With Their Boots On."

After having watched half of "The Untold Story" last night, I am now wondering which was the more inaccurate.

Billy

[bc]

I managed to catch the midnight showing of the Untold Story. It was a rerun made in 1999.

I fell asleep after the start and woke up when Reno made his charge. Fell asleep again and missed out on who won the battle.

Woke up again with 5 minutes of the Commanche Warriors still left. Watch Col. MacKenzie charge into Quanah Parker's camp in the Palo Duro Canyon in the summer of 1875. They captured the village (not the people) and the horse herd. They burned all the tipis and supplies and then shot all 1400 horses. Parker and the Commanches stayed out until the winter but finally came into the res at Fort Sill. MacKenzie was outnumbered but the NAs ran from his surprize attack.

bc

[Dark Cloud]

Given they wheel out movies interrupted by idiotic discussions by "experts" as to the realism shown, they might as well do that with Errol Flynn as Custer. At least no morbidly obese shaking cheeks in 1941, and despite all the fiction, it is a terrific film of the time.