Father Thomas LaForge
Mother Magpie LaForge
Spouse Littlenest
Daughter of Mitch Bouyer and Magpie Outside ("On the Ground"). Her birth name was Mary Bouyer.
Her father died with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Her mother and her two children were taken in by their father's friend, Thomas H. LaForge and his wife, Cherry.
When Cherry died, Thomas LaForge married Magpie Outside and adopted her two children. Mary's name was changed to "Mary LaForge".
Mary took no interest in school education and only had a scant knowledge of the English language. She was a capable woman and became a medicine woman like her mother.
Mary became the wife of Little Nest, a full-blood Crow, and had a good life.
SOURCE: Memoirs of a White Crow Indian - Thomas H. LeForge, by Thomas B. Marquis, 1928
Father Thomas LaForge
Mother Magpie LaForge
Spouse Littlenest
Daughter of Mitch Bouyer and Magpie Outside ("On the Ground"). Her birth name was Mary Bouyer.
Her father died with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Her mother and her two children were taken in by their father's friend, Thomas H. LaForge and his wife, Cherry.
When Cherry died, Thomas LaForge married Magpie Outside and adopted her two children. Mary's name was changed to "Mary LaForge".
Mary took no interest in school education and only had a scant knowledge of the English language. She was a capable woman and became a medicine woman like her mother.
Mary became the wife of Little Nest, a full-blood Crow, and had a good life.
SOURCE: Memoirs of a White Crow Indian - Thomas H. LeForge, by Thomas B. Marquis, 1928
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