The military coup could have been averted with discreet diplomacy. The Native Americans' Plains tribes highly regarded 'counting coup' was more important than the taking of the enemies' lives.The...
"I was so sick and faint, so overcome at the brutality of this fiendish sport, that I hardly heard the shouts of "Bravo! bravo!" and the fanfaronade of trumpets...I do not know which astonished me...