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How Sitting Bull got his name…
October 8, 2011 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
This interesting tidbit appeared in the “Pittsfield Sun“, Massachusetts, March 16, 1881 issue:
Filed under: Post Civil War, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: 19th century, Sitting Bull