18 aOr run from the Ku Klux Klan.
19 But that's the way things go sometimes,
20 bHistory being what it is,
21 And eventually everybody found a new way of life,
22 In spite of Reconstruction,
23 And the carpetbaggers,
24 And President Grant,
25 And everything else,
26 cWhich is about par.
CHAPTER 511 Meanwhile, the Grant administration was trying to figure out what to do about the American Indians,
2 Who were still there,
3 dAnd had a whole bunch of treaties that said they had a right to be where they were,
4 eWhich was starting to put a crimp on Manifest Destiny.
5 It was hard to know what to do exactly,
6 Especially since the Yank population as a whole was pretty tired of wars,
7 And had been so distracted for so long by the Civil War and the negro problem that they had completely forgotten about the Indians,
8 And what savages they were,
9 And how much of a threat they posed to Manifest Destiny and the American Way and everything,
10 Until a former union general named Custer changed everything,
11 Overnight.
CHAPTER 521 fHere's how it happened.
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2 gGeneral Custer was stationed out west somewhere,
3 hIn Indian country,
4 With a cavalry troop that someone had placed under his command,
5 iProbably after thinking about it the way Grant had taught all his officers to.
6 Anyway,
7 Custer started following some Indian tracks,
8 Which weren't too hard to follow,
9 Because they completely blanketed the entire plain, as far as the eye could see.
10 After he had followed them for a while,
11 Custer came to the conclusion that a frontal assault would be too risky,
12 And so he decided,
13 jWith typical Yank ingenuity,
14 That the best thing to do would be to split up the kSeventh Cavalry into seven groups,
15 And then kind of surround the Indians and overwhelm them with surprise,
16 Or something like that,
17 lAlthough nobody knows for sure.
18 And so that's exactly what mCuster did.
19 nWhen they found the remains of the Seventh Cavalry a few days later at the Little Big Horn,
20 There wasn't much left,
21 oExcept maybe a big bloodstain marking the spot of Custer's Last Stand,
22 Which suggested that there must have been some kind of a flaw in the general's plan,
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