Son of the Morning Star

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1. The Crow name for George Armstrong Custer.

   Custer, Son of the Morning Star, took an immediate liking to the Crows

   1995, Dennis W. Harcey, Brian R. Croone, Joe Medicine Crow, White-Man-Runs-Him: Crow Scout with Custer, Evanston Publishing, page 92

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   He told me that Hairy-moccasin, a Crow Wolf, had first discovered the big enemy village and told Son-of-the-morning-star, and that he, Half-yellow-face, had then tried to stop Son-of-the-morning-star from attacking it.

   1930, Frank B. Linderman, quoting Plenty Coups, Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, published 1962, page 175

   He [Hunting Horse] pictured a snorting, wild buffalo he had cornered in a shallow cave during his last hunt with “Sun^([sic])-Of-The-Morning-Star.”

   1956, Mary Ellen Ryan, “Custer’s Hunting Horse”, in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume XXXIV, number 1, page 332