b'Jews in the Old West quickly dropping back into my hole, which enabledyou will certainly be killed. In battle he was to imitatethat, they said, there was a great opportunity to achieve me to take a shot, or as many as the size of the targetthe cries of the kingfisher, which was a kind of crossa famous victory over these surrounded white men. warranted, without undue exposure and yet be in touchbetween a police whistle and a screech. What\'s more, hisThere would be a historic honor in it. All the people were with the general situation. In such instances, I have seenhorse had to be painted with certain prescribed patternswatching. Surely, they said, Roman Nose could not resist Indians crawl behind a knoll and saw several times twoand colors. He was also told to wear a special war paint:this chance for further glory.horsemen drag a body away between them. Indian boysthree horizontal bars that would cover his entire face came from behind a knoll shooting arrows at us. I sawyellow on the forehead, red over the nose and cheeks,So Roman Nose came, knowing he was going to his bodies of Indians both on foot and horseback comingand black across the chin and jaw. And finally, he wasdeath. There seemed little doubt about that. After all, he towards us. These I considered good targets" (Ibid.). never to eat food that had been taken from a dish with ahad always followed the prescriptions for the past eight metal instrument" (Mort, Cheyenne Summer, p. 235). years, and he had been protected.Now, having violated Schlesinger, who had remained miraculously unhurt,a taboo, he had canceled his power. It was just a careless kept up a steady fire on the Indians as did the other"And finally, he was never to eat food that had mistake, but even heroes must pay for their mistakes. The surviving soldiers and scouts, but the strain and thebeen taken from a dish with a metal instrument" taint of metal would draw bullets to him (Ibid., p.236).continued losses began to take its toll as the combined(let that sink in).CheyenneSiouxArapaho force kept coming at themRoman Nose arriving on the battlefield, surveyed in and scouts continued to fall, wounded or dead. Again,He had faithfully and carefully followed thosethe short distance the decreased number of scouts and Schlesinger, in the same correspondence previouslyinstructions for the usage of his special war bonnet forsoldiers still sending up a deadly, withering stream of mentioned, added, "As the fighting progressed, it beganover eight years when going to battle with whites or withfire, then mounted his horse and with his men charged to tell on us. Every once in a while the cry went up thatother tribes. Then, the unthinkable happened, the onethe scouts.this one, or that one, was hitI have often been askedthing that would be the point of no return for the tall, whether I have killed any Indians, to which my answerimposing chief. The night before ordering the charge onAt this point, another young scout, Simpson Everett much truthfully be that I don\'t know. I did not considerForsyth\'s command, he had, without knowledge, eaten"Jack" Stilwell, two years younger than Schlesinger and it safe to watch the results of a shot" (Heinzman, Georgebread that had been cooked in a pan, and then removedjust barely out of his teens, had taken up a position in M., Don\'t Let Them Ride Over Us, The American Heritagefrom the pan with an iron fork. the tall grass on the island at the very point of Roman Book of Great Adventures of the Old West, p. 273). Nose\'s charge. The tall, then lanky Stilwell would "He (Roman Nose) usually gave instructions to themake (in later years he would become obese, dying Then, as Forsyth lies, barely conscious, and the Indianswomen about his special requirements for foodof heart disease at 52) old Western history at Beecher mounting yet another massive charge on the small grouppreparation, but this time he had forgotten to do it.Island (and eventually become a U.S. deputy marshal of surrounded weary, hungry, thirsty troopers still left, aCheyenne women in his village would have knownin the Oklahoma Territory) but not as much history miracle, if it can be called that, occurred. without being told, but in the village he was visiting,as his younger brother eventually would. You see, Jack the Sioux women had no way of knowing. It\'s hard notStilwell had a younger brother named Frank, who was Cheyenne Chief Roman Nose was a firm believer in theto imagine his sense of shock when he learned whatadventurous like his elder. The meantempered Frank power of Indian customs and superstitions. In timeshappened. The timing could not have been worse. There\'dStilwell would venture down to Tombstone, Arizona, past, he had a special war bonnet made for him by hisbe no opportunity to conduct the purification ceremonieswhere he would join up with the "Cowboy" faction of medicine man, White Bull. When the old medicine manthat would restore the bonnet\'s power, because thethe Clantons and the McLaurys, and in the aftermath finally completed his task, he admonished the chief toCheyenne leaders at the battlefield had sent emissariesof the gunfight at the OK Corral, would be accused of heed his warnings. According to Mort, "First, he (Romanto him, saying they needed him. His reputation and hisassassinating Wyatt Earp\'s brother Morgan, whereupon Nose) must never shake hands with anyone. If you do,prowess would be an inspiration to others. 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