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In 1904 at the World's Fair in New York two journalists caught up with Rain-In-The-Face, a Sioux sub-chief was known to have participated in the battle of the Little Big Horn, and managed to get a previously untold story from him about what really happened there. Rain-In-the-Face had been immortalized in a Longfellow poem as the man who killed General Custer- but this never-before-told story contradicts that.
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