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Famous Indian War Surgeon Valentine Trant McGillycuddy ALS- he was Crazy Horse's friend. Written from the "Red Cloud Post, D. T." on November 18th, 1878. The letter concerns financial matters for two companies of the 3rd US Cavalry.

"On a hot September day in 1877 on the Pine Ridge reservation in the Dakota Territory (now South Dakota), a large group of angry Sioux were crowded around the guard house. Writhing in pain on the ground before them, bleeding profusely from his abdomen, lay one of the greatest leaders of the Native American resistance to the U.S. government: Crazy Horse. Standing near the door, with the chief’s blood dripping off his bayonet, was a now very fearful William Gentles, a 47- year-old private born in County Tyrone, who had panicked and stabbed him. The enraged crowd then parted, as word spread, to allow "Ta-sunka Witko Kola," Crazy Horse's friend, through to him. As the slim young Irish-American doctor with a Fu Manchu mustache and long goatee moved toward Crazy Horse and saw the wound, his worst fears were realized. Many miles from the nearest hospital, he knew there was no way to save his friend. The question now was whether Crazy Horse would be the only one to die there that day. That doctor was Valentine Trant McGillycuddy..."

In fine condition with wear as shown.

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