saddlebag dispatches
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hile there is some disagreement as to whether she was Cheyenne or Arapaho, Pretty Nose (top left) was a noted woman war chief who fought in the battle. Rain-inthe-Face (top middle), another Lakota warrior and chief, had a violent history with Captain Thomas Custer. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (top right), a Northern Cheyenne who saved her wounded brother, Chief Comes in Sight, and helped rally the tribe to victory at the Battle of the Rosebud just weeks before, she would go on to fight beside her husband at the Little Bighorn, and be credited with knocking George Custer from his horse to his death.
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