Pulp Fiction, 1934 · page 133 of 148
Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 133: what you’re looking at
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This page from a pulp magazine features "The Round-Up," a readers' letters section. The visible content includes two reader submissions discussing Scout Dick Deering and his potential involvement with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The letters debate whether Deering served as a scout with the Seventh Cavalry and clarify historical details about the Custer Massacre, noting that Crow Indians served as scouts and that there were no survivors of the actual battle itself—only survivors from related expeditions under other commanders.
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OLKS, a couple of weeks ago, E. L. Carson gave us some information about Scout Dick Deering. Comes now to the meetin’ here to- night, L. M. Prill, author and editor, of Billings, Montana. Friend Prill is a distant relative of Custer. He lectures on the Custer Massacre. Surely he should be well up on the subject. All right then, Brother Bill, if you will get goin’, you may be sure that we will all listen atten- tively. “Boss AND Foixs: In your issue of March 3, 1934, I noticed a query from Wellington Stutt, of Saskatche- wan, Canada. In it he asks if Scout Dick Deering, who served in the Boer War, was not a scout with General Custer in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Tt is very doubtful if this man was a scout with the Seventh Cavalry, as Indians, of the Crow tribe, were used entirely for this duty. These Indians knew the tf... > . wr 2 Sh SU mies on et 25 ae 2h Sed - rv *~ rT ». + PAs 4 ~ fon. GETS, M country well as it was thei hunting grounds and they were friendly to the whites. Their trust was great in the cavalrymen as they wanted the hated enemy driven out of what they asserted was their country. White scouts were not used for the reason that this was an unknown country and many of the soldiers comprising the Seventh Cavalry were new recruits and totally igno- rant of Indian fighting. “Despite the fact that ever so often publications come out with stories about this or that survivor of the so-called Custer Massacre, one should remember at all times, there were no survivors of this terrible slaughter. Of course, Major Reno, who retreated in the face of danger, and Colonel Benteen, both survived, as they did not go to Custer’s aid. Many men under their command, of course, were survivors of the Cus- ter expedition, but not of the battle. It is, therefore, very evident that many such survivors were men that were attached to Reno or Benteen,. a