Horned Horse (a/k/a Little Bull). 25 June 1876 – “Horned Horse, an old Sioux chief, whose son was killed early in the fight, stated to the late Captain Philo Clark, after the surrender of the hostiles, that he went up on a hill overlooking the field to mourn for the dead, as he was too weak to fight, after the Indian fashion. He had a full view of all that took place almost from the beginning… Horned Horse did not recognize Custer, but supposed he was the officer who led the column that attempted to cross the stream.” [John F. Finnerty, Warpath and Bivouac, 137.]

24 May 1877 – Chicago Times reporter with the help of Lt. Wm. Philo Clark and Billy Garnett as interpreter gets an account of the Custer fight from Crazy Horse, speaking through Horned Horse, who describes the big village consisting of seven camp circles – 1800 lodges each with 3-4 warriors, according to Crazy Horse. “Horned Horse says the smoke and dust were so great that foe could not be distinguished from friend… [he] represented this hell of fire and smoke and death by intertwining his fingers and saying, ‘Just like this, Indians and white men.’” [Chicago Times, 26 May 1877.]

Horned Horse is quoted at length by Bourke: “Some lodges came out from Standing Rock Agency and told us the troops were coming. The troops charged on the camp before we knew they were there. The lodges were strung out about as far as from here to the Red Cloud Agency slaughter-house (about two and half miles). I was in the council house with a lot of the old men, when we heard shots fired from up river…I did not go out to see the bodies because there were two young bucks of my band killed in the fight and we had to look after them… After the fight we went to Wolf Mountain, near the head of Goose Creek. Then we followed Rosebud down, and then went over to Bluestone Creek… [where] the band broke up.” [Bourke, On the Border with Crook, 416-17.]

5 September 1877 – Horned Horse said councils were underway at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies when he rode out in search of a bunch of stolen horses “and upon his return there was a large gathering of White soldiers and Indians in the Agency who had surrounded Crazy Horse who was on horseback and Crazy Horse was asked to get down from his horse and he would not do so. They had a wagon and wanted Crazy Horse to ride in the wagon with a bunch of other chiefs to Fort Robinson, but Crazy Horse would not ride in the wagon. That Crazy Horse did go along to Fort Robinson on horse back with a bunch of scouts and soldiers and chiefs riding in the wagon. That deponent did not go with them because his horse was played out and could not travel. That deponent heard that the same day Crazy Horse was killed at Fort Robinson by a soldier.” [Affidavit of Little Bull or Horned Horse, 21 May 1938, before Roy M. Heth, Notary Public. See Pension Files.]