Montana; The Magazine of Western History, April 1st, 2005
In a broad grassy swale leading to Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, on a hot July morning in 1876, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody killed and scalped a young Cheyenne warrior, Yellow Hair. As troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode by, Cody lofted Yellow Hair's soppy knot, a hank of black hair measuring about fifteen inches long attached to a piece of skin about three inches wide, and proclaimed it the "first scalp for Custer." Cody's action at Warbonnet Creek brought him almost immediate acclaim far and wide, for it occurred just weeks after the nation learned the shocking news of the Little Bighorn batt...
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