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A summary: It fucking hurts.
Friday, April 04, 2025
How it feels to be scalped - Marvin Holly
In this episode of wildwestfaces we look at a newspaper article from the Daily Morning Astorian from 1884. In this article Marvin Holly from Dearborn County Indiana describes how he was with Custer when the army mistakenly attacked Black Kettle's camp, who were on good terms with the government. Holly was knocked off his horse and was pounced upon by a Cheyenne warrior who scalped him alive. This account is vivid and frightful.
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the army mistakenly attacked Black Kettle's camp, who were on good terms with the government????
ReplyDeleteThere were white women captives in the village.
They were peaceful native Americans who never hurt anybody according to the history books.
DeleteDepends on the history books. Try a few pre-1970.
DeletePour soul pretty intense. Surprised he survived prob wished he died from the pain of healing.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to click on it! Had to have a cancer removed from the tippy top of my head not long ago, and, even with the anesthetic, it made my insides trade places with the sound of the skin pulling off my skull to sew me back up. Just thinking about it creeps me out. They've been cutting on me like there's no tomorrow over the past few years. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm passing on this one, too, Nines. Sorry to hear about your ordeal. Prayers for your future health.
DeleteBlood Meridian. Cormac McCarthy.
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends is old enough that his great-grandmother (?) came across country on the Oregon trail, one of her sisters died of dysentery and another girl was scalped and lived.
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