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White Man Runs Him (Mahr-Itah-Thee-Dah-Ka-Roosh; c. 1858 – June 2, 1929) was a Crow scout serving with George Armstrong Custer's 1876 expedition against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne that culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
This eye-witness account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn by White Man Runs Him, who was one of the four Crow scouts who rode with Custer down Medicine Tail Coulee just before Custer was killed, is important because it establishes that Custer tried to charge across the Little Bighorn to attack the Indian village at the very beginning of the ...
NPS Historical Handbook: Custer Battlefield (Little Bighorn) Custer's Crow Indian scouts visit Custer Battlefield. From left to right are White-Man-Runs-Him, Hairy Mocassin, Curley, and Goes Ahead. (Photograph by Wanamaker about 1916.) Custer's Troops Take to the Trail.
That saved their lives. The last White Man Runs Him saw of Custer and his detail, they were charging toward the Little Bighorn River, heading for the huge Indian village—estimates range from several hundred lodges to a couple thousand—and the stuff of legend.
Left to right: Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, White Man Runs Him, Curtis and Alexander B. Upshaw (Curtis’s assistant and Crow interpreter). Custer’s subordinate, Major Reno, attacked the southern end of the village, while Custer circled to the north along the bluffs of the river.
White Man Runs Him ( Mahr-Itah-Thee-Dah-Ka-Roosh ; c. 1858-2 de junio de 1929) fue un explorador Cuervo que sirvió con la expedición de 1876 de George Armstrong Custer contra los Sioux y Cheyenne del Norte que culminó en la Batalla del Little Bighorn .
White Man Runs Him: Crow scout White Swan, Crow Scout (severely wounded) William Jackson: half-Pikuni and half Blackfoot scout Young Hawk: Arikara scout; Other links: http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/summer_2006/endnotes/custers-field.html
