Identifier: blackhillsorlast00tallrich (find matches)
Title: The Black Hills, or, The last hunting ground of the Dakotahs : a complete history of the Black Hills of Dakota, from their first invasion in 1874 to the present time, comprising a comprehensive account of how they lost them : of numerous adventures of the early settlers : their heroic struggles for supremacy against the hostile Dakotah Tribes, and their final victory : the opening of the country to white settlement, and it subsequent development
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Tallent, Annie D
Subjects: Dakota Indians Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- History
Publisher: St. Louis, : Nixon-Jones Print. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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alleywas Charlie Reynolds, one of Custers long tried and mosttrusted scouts. It is related that the brave fellow sold hislife very dearly. After exhausting the cartridges, in bothhis gun and revolver, he was seen to deal such a fierce blowwith the latter, on the head of an Indian, in close combat,that it broke, thus leaving him at the mercy of the enemy.He soon fell shuttered by a volley of bullets. Reynolds was with Custer on his expedition into theBlack Hills in 1874, at which time he was sent with dis-patches from the Cheyenne river to Fort Laramie, throughthe hostile country, enduring hardships and privations,from which he never fully recover. His early life was wrapped in complete mystery. If hehad a secret that darkened his life, as some suspected,he guarded it well, as he skillfully evaded all questions,even from his most intimate friends, referring to hisantecedents. All of the slain were buried on the battle-ground wherethey fell—ground afterwards (in 1879) set apart by the
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LAST HUNTING GROUND OF THE DAKOTAHS. 221 government as a national cemetery, where an imposingmonument was erected to the memory of the dead. In August, 1879, Gen. Custers remains were removedfrom their temporary resting-place and buried with impos-ing honors at West Point, N. Y., where they now repose,almost in the shadow of the buildings where he wastrained in the science and tactics of civilized warfare. Custers body appears to have been the only one to es-cape mutilation. Whether the sacrilegious hands of thesavages were stayed by a sentiment of admiration for thewonderful bravery of the fair-haired chief, or by a super-stitious fear of the wrath of the great Manitou, is a matterfor speculation. It is related that Chief Gall, on being questioned as tothe reason why Custer was not scalped, said: No oneknew him from anyone else. His hair was cut short, andwe could not tell him from any other. This statement, however, seems highly improbable, as hehad often been seen by muny of the In

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