Sitting Bull’s Dancing Horse

A strange and heartbreaking moment transpired outside Sitting Bull’s cabin in 1890, while he was being assassinated during an attempted arrest at Standing Rock Reservation. At the sound of gunfire, a horse tethered to a railing started to “dance,” trained to do so while he was in the Wild West, “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s famous spectacle of which Sitting Bull was a part for four months during 1885. Cody had presented the horse to the Lakota holy man when he left the show to go home.  T