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2 unusual facts about Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer


Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

They also fought US soldiers; his elder brother was killed in the fight at Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's attempt to clear the Bozeman Trail of US forts.

One tale recounts a Cheyenne version of the story of the great bear which is supposed to have put its claw marks on the side of Devils Tower, a feature later seen in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.


The Red Beggar of Abbeyleix

He lost a leg in a fight with smugglers off the French coast, but although fitted with a wooden leg was of no use aboard the ship and was cast ashore.


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