Fearing government retribution, Northern Cheyenne told a 100-year-old secret about Buffalo Calf Road Woman (born about 1850). During the Battle of the Rosebud (June 17, 1876), the Indians forces drew back leaving behind her wounded brother, Comes in Sight. Despite the oncoming cavalry, she road out and rescued him. The Cheyenne rallied and defeated the cavalry.
June 26, 1876, she fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn with her husband, Black Coyote. Armed with just a 6-shooter, she used a stick to knock Custer off his horse. Other women began beating him their fists, but she did not know who killed him.
May 1879, she and her husband were captured. She died of diphtheria, Black Coyote committing suicide—2 babies left behind.
C. T. Suddeth 
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