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listen to this:
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"General george armstrong custer,
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"dressed in a dashing suit of buckskin, "
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is prominent everywhere,
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"taking in everything connected
with his command with the keen,"
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incisive manner for which
he is so well known. "
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Ha ha!Yeah, well, ain't
every command's got its own
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pet newspaper man tagging along.
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I want you, reno, and benteen to
follow their trail up the rosebud.
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Gibbon and I will march up the yellowstone
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to a blocking position here
at the mouth of the little bighorn.
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Now don't be greedy, custer.
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There's indians enough for all of us.
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Wait for us.
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No, I don't think I will.
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Answer me something.
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If you think custer's so infernal bad,
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why do you ride with him?
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It's better to know a devil
and confound his purpose
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than to just leave him be.
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The vision of sitting bull
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inspired many warriors
to leave the reservation.
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They pledged themselves to the
death to defend the sacred paha sapa.
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Sitting bull moved the people
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to the banks of the river
called "the greasy grass,"
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where the game was plentiful.
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There the warriors readied themselves.
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They waited for the day the
sky would rain long knives.
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What did you see, mr. Wheeler?
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Horses.
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Horses?
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More than i could count, sir.
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Looked like a brown wave across the hills,