The following graphic and reliable account of the death of Sitting Bull and of the circumstances attending it will be read with interest by many readers. It was written by Major James McLaughlin ...

The Bozeman-based actor is playing the legendary Lakota leader in History's two-part series "Sitting Bull," premiering Tuesday and Wednesday. For him, the connection was more than worth the challenge.

Which was why, one morning in 1885, after several years of exile and imprisonment, the old Indian chief Sitting Bull, victor at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, received a visit from John Burke.

A circa 1883 photograph of Lakota leader Sitting Bull Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On December 15, 1890, Major James McLaughlin of the United States Indian Service wired a telegram back to ...