It's apparently true that, like Wyatt Earp and George Washington, C.H. Thus, it was better to spend time on less well known aspects of C.H.'s life. Of course, other films had or would concentrated on this incident in detail. Some may be disappointed that the Battle of the Little Big Horn is glossed over with just a shot of charging 'Indians', then of the foreboding sky overhead, then the strewn-about cavalry bodies. Historically, this rival actually grabbed C.H., who was then bayoneted by a soldier. is trying to escape, after learning that he has been deceived, rival Little Big Man is shown bayoneting him in the kidney, thus concluding a long-standing animosity which the film dramatizes. In this engagement, numerous Crow and Shoshoni: traditional enemies of the Lakota, were included in Crook's force, and are said to have been critical in averting a massacre similar to that suffered by Fetterman's patrol. As in most western films, the important role of cooperating Native Americans in many of the cavalry victories goes unsung. Also, the skirmish at Rosebud, which occurred only a week before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was more of a stand off than depicted. The subsequent important dramatized treaty of Fort Laramie was the culmination of this war period, when Red Cloud was the top Lakota chief. Historically, it was actually related to a prior gold rush in the Virginia City, MT area, back during the late Civil War and early post-war period, about a decade before the Black Hills gold rush. For example, the Fetterman massacre is portrayed as a conflict resulting from the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. Although the story sticks to the facts much more so than most Hollywood films of this era with purported biographies to tell, inevitably, some aspects are fictionalized. We only have the striking-looking Suzan Ball as Little Fawn/Black Shawl: Crazy Horse's girlfriend, then wife, to provide a bit of respite from the serious goings on. This is all about the doomed desperate struggle for survival of the northern plains Native American's free roaming way of life. As you would expect from such a film that borders on a documentary treatment, humor is virtually non-existent, and the dialogue and acting tend to be a bit stiff. He is former Major Twist(John Lund), who spends considerable time with the Lakota Sioux after they nurse him back to health after being nearly fatally wounded by a Shoshone arrow in the back. However, there is a fictional European narrator who steps in periodically. Out of the ordinary western in that Native American-European conflicts are told mostly from the former's point of view.
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