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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: December 21, 2014
Caption: Custer Monument - Interpretive Display
Additional Description: Panel 12 - caption 3
Chief Gall
The Sioux and Cheyenne village contained about 7,000 people, mustering about 2,000 warriors. The fighting men followed many chiefs. The two most prominent were Gall and Crazy Horse. In warfare, however, chiefs did not command. They led by example or not at all. Gall played a significant part in the coming battle, but it has been exaggerated. Sitting Bull fought in the first stages of the battle, then helped protect the gathering of women and children.
Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Department
Submitted: December 22, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p296051
File Size: 2.626 Megabytes

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