Instructive Tales for the Young: Entitled the Wood, an Allegory, a Fragment, and a Contest Between the Unembodied Vices and Virtues (1858)

IT is not easy to characterize Sitting Bull, of all Sioux chiefs most generally known to the American people. There are few to whom his name is not familiar, and still fewer who have learned to connect it with anything more than the conventional notion of a bloodthirsty savage. The man was an enigma at best. He was not impulsive, nor was he phlegmatic. He was most serious when he seemed to be jocose.