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A Hero One Day, A Victim Another

by | May 1, 2018 | True West Blog

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Sgt. Emanuel Stance was a hero, the first Buffalo Soldier to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.  He led a patrol against a group of Apaches in west central Texas in May 1870, liberating captive Willie Lehmann in the process. Stance’s end wasn’t so gallant.  He was found shot to death near Crawford, NE on Christmas Eve 1887.  Nobody was ever arrested or tried. But many believed


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