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A Road We Do Not Know

December 2023
1min read

The editors reply: The headline on the Custer story is all our doing and none of Mr. McMurtry’s. The article, drawn from his new biography of Crazy Horse, came to us without a title; in seeking one, we were struck by the sentence, “Half Yellow Face, poetically, told Custer that they would all go home that day by a road they did not know.”

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