Imagine going on a buffalo hunt with Sioux Chief Spotted Tail, Buffalo Bill Cody and Gen. George Custer. Oh, and throw in Col. George Forsyth of Beecher Island fame for good measure. Pure fantasy, except it actually happened in January 1872, when Gen. Phil Sheridan hosted the visiting Grand Duke Alexis of Russia on a “royal buffalo hunt” in Nebraska. In Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis: Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt (University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95), authors Dou
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