legend of dancing horse and, xi–xii, xvii, 182–83, 224–25
life at Standing Rock, 191, 193–94
marriages, 111
Mary Collins and, 196–97, 208–9
meets Cody in Buffalo, 138–41
Sitting Bull (cont.)
174–75
negotiations for Dawes Act and, 199–200
not present at Little Bighorn, 88–89
poses for Notman, 177–81
reception at Merchants Hotel, 13
saves white woman captured by Sioux, 115
“Sitting Bull Combination” entourage and, 23
spurns army commission seeking his return to U.S., 149–50
Sun Dance ceremony and, 76–77, 181
temperament of, 175, 176
as thunder dreamer, 113
tours St. Paul with McLaughlin, 20
transfer to Fort Randall, 16–17
transfer to Fort Yates, 11–15
Treaty of Fort Laramie and, 63–65, 74
Trobriand puts price on head, 65
visits Washington, D.C., 172–74
warns against looting battlefield, 82
wildlife and, 105, 112, 118
as Wild West performer, 24–25, 91–102, 146–47, 155–56, 181–82
Sitting Bull (Yenne), 111
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux (Vestal), 108
Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy (LaPointe), 102
Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War (Pope), 5
Sitting Bull Cabin Exhibit, 225
“Sitting Bull Combination,” 94
slavery, 33, 35–39
Slow White Bull, 101
smallpox, 2, 98, 114, 153
Smith & Wesson gun, 63, 69
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Repatriation Office, 103
Spotted Eagle, 6
Spotted Tail, 70
Spring, Agnes Wright, 43
Standing Bear, 78
Standing Rock Agency and Reservation, 10
contemporary protests at, xvi, 248
dedication ceremony at, 194–95
Hunkpapas and, 11, 17
Indians ordered to return to, 156
Sitting Bull and family at, 93,174, 176, 191, 195, 196, 199–200
Statue of Liberty, 54
Steele, Matthew F., 220
St. George, Judith, 247
St. Louis, Sitting Bull’s final appearance with Wild West, 181–83
Cody gives Sitting Bull a horse, 182–83
St. Paul, Minn., Sitting Bull on tour meets Annie Oakley, 20–21
St. Paul Pioneer Press, 8, 10, 12, 20
Stillson, Jerome, 148, 150–54
“The Story of American Hunting and Firearms,” 133–34
Strikes-the-Kettle, 211, 219
Stronghold, 212
Sublette, Ned, 55
Sully, Alfred, 64, 114
Sun Dance ceremony, 76–77, 119
233
Tatanka Iyotake, see Sitting Bull
Tecumseh, 127–28
telephone, 51
Teller, Henry M., 95
Tennis (buffalo hunter), 43, 44
Terry, Alfred Howe, 12, 74, 81–82, 149
“There’s No Business Like Show Business” (song), 126
thunder dreamer, 113
Thunder Hawk, 192
Thundering Herd, The (movie), 241
Tim McCoy Remembers the West (McCoy), 189
Toronto Globe, 144, 176
To See with the Heart (St. George), 247
translators and translation, 82, 97, 99–100, 136
for Sitting Bull, 8, 15, 19, 120, 124, 145, 150, 165, 166, 169, 170, 171, 182, 201, 212
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), 63–66, 74
Triggs, Stanley, 179
Trobriand, Regis de, 65
True Tales of the Plains (Cody), 39
Twain, Mark, 26, 48
Twenty-fifth Infantry (Buffalo Soldiers), 17–18
Two Lance, 70, 71
Valley of the Little Bighorn, 75–76
Vermilye, B. D., 13, 14
Vernon, Diana (fictional character), 43
“Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America,” 142
Vestal, Stanley, 18, 108, 110, 196, 202, 205, 217, 222
Victoria, Queen, 31, 49, 162, 177
Victoria Bridge, 177
Wakan Tanka (Great Mystery), 76
Walsh, Major James Morrow, 10, 147, 148, 150, 176, 221–22
Warbonnet Creek, Battle of, 234
War Department, U.S., 11, 173, 231–32, 234
Warren, Louis, 38, 62, 163
Washington DC, Wild West cast members visit, 172–74
wasichu (white man):
meaning of, 4
misunderstanding of Native Americans, 110
original meaning of, 104
Wayne, “Mad” Anthony, 127
Welch, A. B., 247, 248
Weldon, Catherine (Woman Walking Ahead), 195–97, 198, 199, 200–211, 220
Wertz Brothers, 20
“Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way” (mural), 142
Wetmore, Helen Cody, 38, 43
Weybright, Victor, 36, 92–93
White Buffalo Calf Woman dream, xv, 106–7
White Dog, 6, 13
Wickham, P. B., 225
wildlife:
Custer’s killing of, 68
depiction of Lewis and Clark’s encounters with, 184
importance of bear to warriors, 183
no hunting limits on, 46, 133–34
Sitting Bull and, 105, 112, 118
see also specific wildlife
224–27
advertising for and popularity of, 157–59
bankruptcy of, 30, 227
Black Elk and, xvi
Cody’s first attempts to hire Sitting Bull for, 21–22
copyright, 152
as equestrian extravaganza, 161–65, 226
launch of, 22, 54–57
multicity tours, 142–46
Oakley joins, 137
Pawnees as participants in, 55, 95
performance in Buffalo, 125
rebranding of, 184
reenactment of Battle of Little Bighorn, 227
“Shake ’Em Up, Bill” (stagecoach ride reenactment),72
still in existence, 239
Wild West Shows (Reddin), 157
Wilson, Frazer, 129
Wilson, Woodrow, 233
Winchester (gun), 7, 8, 143, 179, 180, 219
Winchester, Sarah, 180
Wind Cave National Park, 246
Wind River Reservation, 246
Woman Walking Ahead (Pollack), 199
Wooden Leg, 81
World’s Columbian Exposition Company, 225
World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, 55, 56, 94
Wounded Knee, xiii, 83, 187, 222–23, 225, 231, 232, 234
Wounded Knee Survivors Association, 161
Wovoka, 185–86, 188–91, 241–44
Yankton Daily Press, 201
Yankton Press and Dakotian, 74
Year Before the Flood, The (Sublette), 55
Yellow Calf, 190, 242
Yellow Hand (Yellow Hair), 84–86, 87
Yellowstone Line, 13
Yellow Wolf, 46
Yenne, Bill, 13, 15, 111, 112
Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses, 225
Zahn, William, 101
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Names: Stillman, Deanne, author.
Title: Blood brothers: the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill / Deanne Stillman.
Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. | Series: Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017006041 | ISBN 9781476773520 | ISBN 1476773521 | ISBN 9781476773544 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Buffalo Bill, 1846–1917—Friends and associates. | Sitting Bull, 1831–1890—Friends and associates. | Entertainers—United States—Biography. | Dakota Indians—Kings and rulers—Biography. | Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Company—
Biography. | Wild west shows—History—19th century.
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