Indian fiction

[frank xerox]

Just finished a book by a guy called Joseph Marshall a Lakota who’s written a fictionalised account of the run up to the rosebud/little big horn battles. It’s a good read but not much new on the actual fighting.
There’s a lot of very interesting little details though that sound like they’ve been passed down - nearly every warrior has a pistol, many have binoculars, these aren’t  remarked on, but everybody is short of bullets. Warriors have whip rounds to give a couple of rounds each to guys who are short. Some little anecdotes/sub plots that would make interesting skirmish scenarios as well. Called “the long knives are crying “

[Inkpaduta]

Nothing I have read has the Sioux and Cheyenne having binoculars.  I would be interested to know what he is basing that on.
Binoculars were not all that common yet.

[frank xerox]

Could me my interpretation - he uses the word “spyglasses” or similar (don’t have it handy), my grandparents used that for binoculars.
But yeah a fair proportion of senior warriors in the book use them. Could be complete fiction but there’s a lot of incidental details that feel & sound right