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9/26/2016 1 Comment Evan S. Connell on Comanche, the most famous survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn
"Comanche was reputed to be the only survivor of the Little Bighorn, but quite a few Seventh Cavalry mounts survived, probably more than one hundred, and there was even a yellow bulldog. Comanche lived on another fifteen years, and when he died, he was stuffed and to this day remains in a glass case at the University of Kansas. So, protected from moths and souvenir hunters by his humidity-controlled glass case, Comanche stands patiently, enduring generation after generation of undergraduate jokes. The other horses are gone, and the mysterious yellow bulldog is gone, which means that in a sense the legend is true. Comanche alone survived."
Source: Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn (Macmillan, 2011).
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Some great work by Stanford undergrad Zach Brown, one of my brilliant students (originally written in part as a research paper for History 150A), on the rhetoric and practice of scalping, a much neglected topic, during the American Revolution. https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/09/rhetoric-practice-scalping/  Update as of Oct. 2016: Further congratulations are in order since Zach's article has been selected to appear in JAR's annual printed volume in the spring! "The Rhetoric and Practice of Scalping" was the site's second most popular article for the month of September.
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