| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Gall: Lakota War Chief. By Robert W. Larson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi, 301 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3830-5.)
Gall, an important Lakota war chief, was often mentioned in the same breath with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse during his own time. This scholarly biography is the first on Gall, who was born about 1840 and died in 1894. Robert W. Larson, a retired professor of history at University of Northern Colorado, has a keen eye for detail and used heretofore uncited Standing Rock reservation records, interviews with Gall's descendants, and other records to bring to life a man who was a first lieutenant of Sitting Bull and a major assailant of George Armstrong Custer's forces at the Little Bighorn in 1876.	1
Gall (in Lakota, Pizi) was named by Walks-with-Many-Names, his widowed mother, after she observed him eating the gallbladder of a freshly killed buffalo. Gall, wrote Larson, was only about five foot seven inches tall, but "looked larger and more formidable because of his massive chest and exceptionally powerful arms" (p. 39).	. . .

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