⫸ 921 Postcard GOES AHEAD Crow Indian Scout 1878 Orlando Goff Photo NEW

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921 Postcard GOES AHEAD, Crow Indian Scout – 1878 Photo by Orlando Goff – NEW
Goes Ahead volunteered in 1876 to serve as a scout for units of the 7th Infantry of the US Army against the traditional enemies of the Crow, the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne. On June 21, six Crow scouts were sent with Custer's Seventh Cavalry of 650 men following the trail of a large Indian encampment up the Rosebud Creek valley. The six scouts included Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, White Man Runs Him, Curly, White Swan, and Half Yellow Face (leader of the scouts).
On June 24, 1876 the Crow scouts sent back word to Custer that there was of a very large encampment of Sioux/Cheyenne in the valley of the Little Big Horn River. However, Custer had also received word that his force of 650 men had been sighted by Sioux/Cheyenne warriors. Custer was concerned that if he did not immediately move to the attack, the village would scatter and disperse, denying the army the armed confrontation it sought with the Sioux/Cheyenne forces.
Goes Ahead and the others took off their Army issued uniforms and put on traditional Crow clothing with eagle feathers to assist their flight to the spirit world should they be killed. When Custer saw this, he was enraged seeing the move as defeatism and he dismissed the scouts. Goes Ahead and the others moved to a ridge with Gen. Reno overlooking the last stand. Attacked but not overrun, most of Reno’s men survived the engagement.
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