usertron2020
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You're right. It's hoping for too much. The soldiers were seriously drunk.It occurs to me that if you can turn the defeat of Custer into a victory by Terry/Custer, et al, never mind how much a victory, you may even be able to butterfly away Wounded Knee. The ghost dancing will still happen, but the cavalry won't have such a hard-on for Sitting Bull and his people; they were still pissed about the LBH 14 years later, maybe they don't open fire with so little provocation in this TL. Or is that hoping for too much, given the average American mind-set in 1890?