Who scalped William Cooke's dundrearies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

beergirllaura

Those would be his extremely long whiskers, and it was done after his death (supposedly). I cannot find a reference to which American Indian was the scalper, but the forces involved included Lakota, Western Cheyenne and Arapaho. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Cooke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn Aug 02 12, 2:11 PM

serpa

Wooden Leg. The dead man had a long beard growing from both sides of his face and extending several inches below the chin. He had also a full mustache. All of the beard hair was of a light yellow color, as I new recall it. Most of the soldiers had beard growing, in different lengths, but this was the longest one I saw among them. I think the dead man may have been thirty or more years old. "Here is a new kind of scalp," I said to a companion. I skinned one side of the face and half of the chin, so as to keep the long beard yet on the part removed. 8 I got an arrow shaft and tied the strange scalp to the end of it. This I carried in a hand as I went looking further. http://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/wooden_leg_little_big_horn.html Aug 03 12, 9:03 AM