    
Title: White Man Runs Him Description: White Man Runs Him (AKA: White Buffalo That Turns Around; 1858-1929), the famed Crow (Absaroka) scout, who served as a guide for Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), shown c. 1904, Crow Agency, Montana; White Man Runs Him, and other Crow scouts were with Custer at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, advising Custer to wait for re-enforcements, but Custer inexplicably decided to charge into the Valley, which the Crows said were "swarming with Sioux" the scouts took off their uniforms and donned their war dress; when Custer asked why they were doing this, the scouts said they wanted to die as Crow warriors; criticizing them as fatalistic, Custer ordered them to stay on the ridge above the valley and led his troops to doom, while Crow scouts joined what was left of Custer's troops and survived the massacre; Category: North American Indians Keywords: Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, American frontier, American Old West, American West, Amerindians, Amerinds, colored, First Americans, guides, indigenous peoples from North America, Indian regalia, Indians, Native Americans in the U.S., North American Indians, Original Americans, Old West, Red Indians, Red Men, scouts, tribes, Wild West Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1650 x 2323 (3.83 MPixels) (1.41) Print Size: 14.0 x 19.7 cm; 5.5 x 7.7 inches File Size: 11.00 MB (11,529,324 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000206881 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
