(1) Mrs. La Pointe of Rapid City, South Dakota, is the granddaughter of Sitting Bull; "Colonel X" is related to General Custer. (2) Rodd Redwing: "I teach movie cowboys how to draw and shoot."
Seeing Rodd Redwing was a real treat! I just watched an old movie, "Hannie Caulder", 1971, starring Robert Culp and Raquel Welch. Rodd did the fast-draw instruction to the actors for this movie. Ironically, immediately after this movie was completed, Rodd had a heart attack and died. R.I.P. Rodd Redwing!!!
@@kellybrown685 But at the Little Big Horn he had cut it a few days before and was wearing a regular army uniform instead of buckskin because of the heat.
Little known facts about Custer...... you may or may not like them, but they happen to be 100% true. 1, He was promoted to General by accident, when this was "discovered" it was a brevet promotion (temporary) 2, His horsemanship...... well some people think he was a natural cavalryman, but he actually had to be rescued by another soldier when his horse was shot dead from under him......... big deal you say, well it was Custer who actually shot the horse between it's ears, while he was riding it!!!! 3, At his last "stand", his horse's name???? This is a good one, Comanche
He was actually born in Tennessee as Webb Richardson. His parents were black, with at least his mother being mixed race (she listed herself as "Mulatto") so maybe there actually was some Native American heritage that he played up. Rajpurkaii was also gimmick. He claimed that his father was a "Brahman mind reader," who worked in vaudeville shows, at the same time claiming that his mother was Native American. He's listed in a 1940 census as being born in India (he worked on Gunga Din in 1938-39 so maybe used the India background to spice up that) which he could have easily lied about, but records before that give his real name and birth state, and there are records for his parents. When he started acting on stage it was with a black cast and he was referred to as a "Negro" in reviews. Most of this info can be found in the book "Hollywood's Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance."
