In the last seconds of his life, Col. George Armstrong Custer tried to bite off the nose of the warrior who was killing him. It was June 25, 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Joseph White Bull was a 26-year-old warrior that day, the nephew of Sitting Bull, and he'd recall his famous kill in both a “ledger book” written in the 1930s for North Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick, and the story he told historian Walter Stanley Campbell, who wrote under the name Stanley Vestal.
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