Wooden Leg Hill

During the fight on Last Stand Hill, the hill in front was occupied by Lakota and Cheyenne. An unknown Sioux warrior wearing a warbonnet was killed there while firing his rifle at soldiers positioned behind a horse barricade on the crest of the ridge behind. As soldier carbine fire ceased, victorious warriors rushed the hill. Wooden Leg, a Northern Cheyenne, recalled that a Sioux wearing a war bonnet lay behind a clump of sagebrush on the hillside a short distance north of a big stone and, while peeping up and firing a rifle with many other Indians near him, was struck in the middle of the forehead by a soldier bullet. When the shots stopped coming from the soldiers, all of the Indians jumped and rushed forward through dust and smoke in great excitement.

Crow Agency, Montana · United States