Slow Bull was a respected Oglala Sioux subchief who joined his first war party at the age of fourteen. At the age of seventeen, he captured one hundred and seventy horses from the Apsaroke. That same year, he received medicine from buffalo in a dream as he slept on a hilltop - not fasting or meditating, but resting from hard travel on the warpath. Over the course of his storied lifetime, he engaged in fifty-five battles with rival tribes.

I personally met this bull buffalo in the middle of a thunderstorm, roaming wild with three hundred other buffalo on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. Some of the oldest buffalo were nearing thirty-five years of age and most of the old bulls stayed by themselves, but this seasoned veteran had come to join the herd as rutting season began. He was massive and awesome. - JL

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