{"id":40855,"date":"2014-03-27T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40855"},"modified":"2014-03-27T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:49:40","slug":"posers-at-little-big-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40855","title":{"rendered":"Posers at Little Big Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BinhTuy66 sends us a link which is a few years old at “Little Big Horn History<\/a>” which says that more than 200 men claimed to be the lone survivor at the famous battle. We tend to think that being a military phony is a recent phenomenon of the last century, but apparently not;<\/p>\n

The newspapers of the day ran hundreds of such stories. Most of the accounts are complete flights of fantasy and offer no documentation to support their claim. Some of the men and their fanciful tales have believers to this day and have entered the realm of Little Big Horn folklore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, journalists have been regularly enablers of these posers, more interested in the story than the fact. Here are some examples;<\/p>\n

Joe Blonger- Blonger (Belonger) (1847-1933) Claimed he missed the Battle of the Little Big Horn because there weren\u2019t enough horses to go around. He said he arrived on the battlefield after the massacre and questioned the Indian children about what really happened. The Indian children also told him who killed Custer, a secret he only shared with family members. Blonger was good friends with Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Cochise and Wild Bill Hickock. He also scouted with Buffalo Bill. The Apaches called Blonger \u201cJoe straight tongue.\u201d Died 1933 Seattle, WA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

William Theodore Dugard- (1864-1937) Dugard claimed to be one of Custer\u2019s \u2018Mississippi Scouts.\u201d Unfortunately Dugard was only twelve years old at the time of the battle and Custer had no \u201cMississippi Scouts.\u201d During his lifetime Dugard was somewhat of a celebrity in his hometown of Tupelo, Miss., and played organ from the back of a wagon during parades. Buried Tupelo, Miss. In 2001 Mississippi erected a military tombstone with the inscription- \u201cCuster Co. -Mississippi Scouts- Battle of the Little Bighorn .\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curly Hicks- Sent to Gen. Terry for reinforcements, Hicks escaped the battlefield by using two dead Indians as a shield. Hicks claimed he was the famed scout for Custer known as Curly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see similarities to modern days phonies’ stories. But, it seems to me that if there were this many survivors at the battle, the Indians might have noticed a crowd of 200 phonies getting their stories straight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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