Post by fred on May 4, 2012 8:31:00 GMT -6
Here is one of the smaller profiles I have put together:
HATTIE LAWRENCE, AKA, CANNONBALL WOMAN (HUNKPAPA)
1912—Hardorff, Richard G., ed., Camp, Custer, and The Little Bighorn (El Segundo, CA: Upton and Sons, Publishers, 1997). Interview with Walter Mason Camp, 1912, at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Camp MSS, unclassified envelope 41, IU Library, IN.
1. She was 10 years old and in the Hunkpapa camp at the time of the attack. [85]
2. An old man gave the warning, pointing upriver. [85]
3. Looking upriver, they “saw a big dust.” [85]
4. Men ran to get horses and Looking Elk got her one. She rode down to Ford B, but was warned not to cross: [“]Don’t cross here, soldiers are coming[!”] [85]
5. She saw soldiers on the high ground to the east. [85]
6. She also saw soldiers “going up a long hill in a direction away from the village, and there was no fighting until they got on top of it.” [85]
7. She saw many dead bodies in a deep gully, many bodies on top of one another. [85]
8. The camp was moved downriver on the afternoon of the first day and the dead Indians were placed in one tent. [85] [This ties in perfectly with the narrative of one of the troopers who saw the same tepee.]
9. The dead Indians in the tepee were from mixed tribes. [85]
10. There were three to five fighting men in each lodge. [85]
11. They were camped on Reno Creek when they fought Crook. [85]
Best wishes,
Fred.
HATTIE LAWRENCE, AKA, CANNONBALL WOMAN (HUNKPAPA)
1912—Hardorff, Richard G., ed., Camp, Custer, and The Little Bighorn (El Segundo, CA: Upton and Sons, Publishers, 1997). Interview with Walter Mason Camp, 1912, at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Camp MSS, unclassified envelope 41, IU Library, IN.
1. She was 10 years old and in the Hunkpapa camp at the time of the attack. [85]
2. An old man gave the warning, pointing upriver. [85]
3. Looking upriver, they “saw a big dust.” [85]
4. Men ran to get horses and Looking Elk got her one. She rode down to Ford B, but was warned not to cross: [“]Don’t cross here, soldiers are coming[!”] [85]
5. She saw soldiers on the high ground to the east. [85]
6. She also saw soldiers “going up a long hill in a direction away from the village, and there was no fighting until they got on top of it.” [85]
7. She saw many dead bodies in a deep gully, many bodies on top of one another. [85]
8. The camp was moved downriver on the afternoon of the first day and the dead Indians were placed in one tent. [85] [This ties in perfectly with the narrative of one of the troopers who saw the same tepee.]
9. The dead Indians in the tepee were from mixed tribes. [85]
10. There were three to five fighting men in each lodge. [85]
11. They were camped on Reno Creek when they fought Crook. [85]
Best wishes,
Fred.