The reality was a little more complicated. Sitting Bull was born in what is now South Dakota, probably in 1831, son of a respected Sioux warrior named Returns-Again. The child wanted to follow in ...

It was written by Major James McLaughlin, who for many years has occupied the post of Indian Agent at Standing Rock, Dakota ... a trip to Sitting Bull's camp, which is forty miles south-west ...

A monument to Sitting Bull was erected at his birthplace near Mobridge, South Dakota, in 1953. Note: Sadly this is not Rico, the circus horse that Sitting Bull was given from Buffalo Bill.