General Custer. He gripped me by the hand tight and said: "You are the
one I want to see, and I am glad that you are first." We went into the
steamboat with General Custer, and he pointed out different places to me
as objects of interest. I directed Custer up to No-Hip-Bone, who had
moved to the mouth of the Little Rosebud. They had a council, Bonnie
Bravo was their interpreter. General Custer said to the interpreter,
pointing to me: "This is the kind of man we want for this campaign, and I
want some others also." Goes-Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, White Swan,
Paints-His-Face-Yellow, and Curly were chosen. There were six of us
altogether. The others were sent back. We always moved ahead of
Custer--we were his pilots. We always travelled at night, climbing the
mountains and wading the rivers. During the day we made a concealed camp.
We travelled in this way several days before we reached the Sioux camp.
When we reached the top of the Wolf Mountains we saw the enemy's camp near
where the Custer Field is at the present time. Hairy Moccasin,
Goes-Ahead, Curly, and myself saw the camp. Custer had halted at the foot
of a mountain, and we all went back and told Custer that we had seen a big
camp, and it was close. Custer was rejoiced and anxious to go ahead and
make the battle. The sun was just peeping when we saw the camp. It was
eight or nine o'clock when we scouts all went ahead again. We got close
to the place of the enemy's camp, and Custer divided the scouts, sent some
across the river, and the others remained on the hill. In the meantime
Custer had divided his command. Yellow Face and White Swan went with Reno
across the river; Goes-Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, Curly, and myself remained
with Custer. Custer sent me to a high knoll. He said: "Go and look for
me and see where I can make a success." He left it to me. When I was up
there I looked around and the troops were very close upon me, and I
motioned to them to come on, and we passed up on to the ridge. The Indian
scouts stood in front of Custer and led his men. We went down to the
Little Horn until we came to a little coulee, and were moving towards the
enemy's camp. We wanted to cross the river at that place. The Sioux
fired at us. We then went up the hill to the ridge. I was all along the
ridge where the fight was raging. We looked over the river, and saw Reno
in his engagement with the Sioux. Finally they wiped out Reno, and he
retreated to the h