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Wounded Knee Creek (SD) Massacre
last real battle of the Indian Wars
300 Sioux were slaughtered
12/29/1890
They made a bold dash and they come near to our train
And the arrows fell around us like hail and like rain;
But with our long rifles we fed them cold lead,
Till many a brave warrior around us lay dead.
"Sioux Indians," Lomax, _Cowboy Songs_; 1910
"The boy had sworn that he would kill the first Indian he saw, and just
before they camped for the night he saw an old squaw sitting by the side
of the road, and took his gun out of the wagon and shot her dead."
From 'The Life and Adventures of E. S. Carter,' in
Irwin Silber (ed.), Songs Of the Great American West;
1967, pp. 33-35 & thanx Manfred Helfert,
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