Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, PteSan Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against whites and other Indias for more than a decade when he fought the greatest battle of his life. On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, five troops of the U.S. Seventh Calvary under the command of George Armstrong Custer rode into the valley of the Little Big Horn River, confidently expecting to rout the Indian encampments there. Instead, the calvary met the gathered strength of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, who did not run as expected but turned the battle towards the soldiers. White Bull charged again and again, fighting until the last soldier was dead. The battle was Custer's Last Stand, and White Bull was later referred to as the warrior who killed Custer. In 1932 White Bull related his life story to Stanley Vestal, who corrobortaed the details from other sources and prepared this biography.
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