A Warrior Who Fought Custer: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Warrior Who Fought Custer, credited to Wooden Leg; Thomas Bailey Marquis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Warrior Who Fought Custer by Wooden Leg; Thomas Bailey Marquis. Read in English by Barry Eads. This is the story of Wooden Leg, one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg tells of growing up on the Great Plains, Cheyenne courtship, camp life, spirituality, and hunting; of skirmishes with other Tribes; and of the Cheyennes’ valiant resistance against the army of the United States. Wooden Leg recalls the fight against Custer at the Little Bighorn, a recollection that stands as the first published Native account of that battle. Wooden Leg related the story in interviews with Thomas B. Marquis, formerly an agency physician for the Northern Cheyennes. Marquis checked and corroborated or corrected all points of importance with other Cheyennes. - Summary by Barry Eads

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Warrior Who Fought Custer
• Author credits: Wooden Leg; Thomas Bailey Marquis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 8:45:20

Catalogue topics

• Indians
• Native Americans
• Cheyenne
• little bighorn
• custer
• warriors
• plains
• wooden leg

Track guide

1. 00 - Author's Statement — 4:57
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Boyhood Wild Days — 26:10
3. 02 - Chapter 2, Part 1 - Roamers in the Game Lands — 27:27
4. 03 - Chapter 2, Part 2 - Roamers in the Game Lands — 22:28
5. 04 - Chapter 3, Part 1 - Cheyenne Ways of Life — 26:58
6. 05 - Chapter 3, Part 2 - Cheyenne Ways of Life — 30:33
7. 06 - Chapter 3, Part 3 - Cheyenne Ways of Life — 32:21
8. 07 - Chapter 4, Part 1 - Worshiping the Great Medicine — 21:04
9. 08 - Chapter 4, Part 2 - Worshiping the Great Medicine — 23:16
10. 09 - Chapter 5 - Off the Reservation — 31:11
11. 10 - Chapter 6 - Swarming of Angered Indians — 22:11
12. 11 - Chapter 7 - Soldiers from the Southward — 20:37
13. 12 - Chapter 8 - On the Little Bighorn — 12:37
14. 13 - Chapter 9, Part 1 - The Coming of Custer — 29:00
15. 14 - Chapter 9, Part 2 - The Coming of Custer — 27:45
16. 15 - Chapter 10 - The Spoils of Battle — 17:55
17. 16 - Chapter 11 - Rovings after the Victory — 30:47
18. 17 - Chapter 12 - Surrender of the Cheyennes — 19:37
19. 18 - Chapter 13 - Taken to the South — 19:45
20. 19 - Chapter 14 - Home Again on Tongue River — 30:08
21. 20 - Chapter 15 - A Tamed Old Man — 35:39
22. 21 - Chapter 16 - Clearing the Docket — 12:54

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