DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
This colorized copy of an 1891 illustration by Frederick Remington is titled The Opening of the Fight at Wounded Knee.
It appeared in Harpers Weekly magazine a month after the incident. Then as now, the News media can slant perception of
the truth as it only shows armed Indians attacking and killing Soldiers. (5 of the 10 soldiers in the image are shown struck down)
On This Day, December 29th, 1890. US 7th Cavalry massacres Lakota at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Soldiers from the Seventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment arrested a band of Lakota who were traveling toward the Pine Ridge Reservation and confined them to a camp near Wounded Knee Creek. Present were about 500 troopers who set up a perimeter around the 350 Lakota (120 men and 230 women and children). The Cavalry also deployed 4 Hotchkiss revolving cannons. The day after the arrest, the military started to recover weapons from the imprisoned refugees. A gun was discharged, probably in a minor scuffel, and undisciplined soldiers opened fire. Eyewitness accounts state that Black Coyote's gun went off when he was seized from behind by soldiers. (he was deaf) There is a good account of this in the Wiki article. The officers lost all control of the men, many fanning out and killing the wounded, others took to their horses and ran down killing the fleeing men, women, and children. Some bodies were found up to 3 miles away. When the shooting stopped, hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children were dead. Reports vary as to true numbers but one report says 4 men and 47 women/children survivors were loaded onto wagons and taken to Pine Ridge Reservation. There were 25 Cavalry fatalities, some said to be by friendly fire, some from the Hotchkiss guns surrounding the encampment. It would be the last large conflict after over a century of fighting between Native Americans and US troops. It was instrumental to the final breakdown of militant resistance to forced reservation life. 19 Soldiers were awarded Medals of Honor for their actions at Wounded Knee, something that caused outrage than as now. A dozen Congressional members have approached President Biden to posthumously withdraw the Medals of Honor.
Unburied dead and mass grave.
Wounded Knee Massacre - Wikipedia
For the last Sunday Picture Show of 2024 I'm displaying the last knife I purchased in 2024, The December BOTM. This model 212 Fixed Ranger has a Burgundy Canvas Micarta handle, brass guard/pommel, and a S30V blade. An edition of 1,000 knives. As of this writing they are still available, Most BOTM's sell out much quicker. I suspect it may be a combination of tight end of year monies for some and the high build quantity. I'd have to check but it sticks in my mind most BOTM's are a run of 500.
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