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48: “I Fought With Custer”, How Ego can Kill You, Avoid the Slippery Slope

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The History of the Indians on the Little Big Horn

Kuster had a bunch of re and crow scouts ahead with him. He kept them covering the ground far off both flanks of the column. The scalp of a white man was still hanging from the ridge pole. Captain Ben Teen used to say the government pays you to get shot at. And I suppose the dumbest, greenest trooper in the regiment figured that this day he'd get shot at too.

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