BUFFALO CALF ROAD WOMAN
She rode directly into the fire — through the bullets and the chaos, across ground that any warrior would have hesitated to cross — and she reached her brother.
He grabbed onto her, got behind her on her horse, and they rode back to safety.
The Cheyenne warriors who witnessed this act were stunned.
The soldiers who witnessed it were stunned.
Everyone who saw it remembered it.
Crook’s scouts — the Crow warriors who fought with the Army — recorded it.
One of them, named Plenty Coups, later described seeing a woman ride into the battle to rescue a man.
The description matches Buffalo Calf Road Woman’s act perfectly.
General Crook himself, in his official report of the Battle of the Rosebud, did not name her.
He did not know her name.
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