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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