Chronicles the life of the American fur trader and pioneer whose discovery of the Great Salt Lake led to Western expansion and settlement

Product Description: "If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the notoriety and was paraded in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as "the warrior who killed Custer...read more

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Looks at the career and accomplishments of the Western pioneer as fur trapper, Indian fighter, scout, politician, and U.S. Marshal during the early nineteenth century