It is clear, however, that many officers took their threat very seriously.
If they didn’t, often, they, their soldiers and camp/fort wives were killed or worse, taken prisoner.
A bloody book re the violence back then:
Killing Crazy Horse by O’Reilly and Martin Duggard.
***Killing Crazy Horse by O’Reilly and Martin Duggard.***
In Boruke’s book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK gives an alternate version on how Crazy Horse was killed from the commonly taught version.
He writes that on the world of Little Big Man, a Sioux, that when CH pulled out his daggers and started slashing, Little Big Man jumped on his back and grabbed CH’s wrists to stop him.
The soldier poked with his bayonet AND MISSED hitting the door frame.
In the struggle, Crazy Horse accidentally stabbed himself.