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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 28, 2017 8:06:20 GMT -6
From a review of the book:
Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West toured the world for three decades beginning in 1883, but as Deanne Stillman notes in her intriguing new book, Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, the traveling show was most successful during the four-month period in 1885 that Sitting Bull appeared with the troupe. The Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief, mistakenly believed by many Americans to have killed George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, was “the one Indian whose fame was as great as Buffalo Bill’s,” Stillman observes. “Foes in ’76, Friends in ’85” read the caption of the publicity photo of Cody and Sitting Bull that announced the curious collaboration. Review: www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2017/1026/Blood-Brothers-details-the-strange-history-defying-friendship-of-Buffalo-Bill-and-Sitting-Bull
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