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The Sacred
Act of
Throwing
Your Life
Away
by JOSEPH SHELTON
W
HEN WALTER CAMPBELL—THE
OKLAHOMA HISTORIAN AND
NOVELIST BETTER KNOWN AS
STANLEY VESTAL—SAT WITH THE
MINNECONJOU SIOUX WHITE BULL,
HE WAS TALKING TO HIS ADOPTED
FATHER, HIS HISTORICAL SOURCE,
AND A FELLOW MAN OF WAR, ALL
AT ONCE. White Bull had fought at
the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Camp-
bell, too, knew a little something
about fighting. He had fought in the
Great War, serving as a battery com-
mander for Batteries F and A of the
335th AEF 87th Division.
