Re: Belle Starr's Cave

Morrow Mustang Wrote:
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> For what it is worth the WIKI says that the Blue
> Duck character in McMurtry is a fictional Kiowa
> half-breed based on a real person, Satanta..
>
> They also state that one of Belle Starr's
> biographers say she was married to another Indian
> named Blue Duck.
>
>
> [en.wikipedia.org]
> ove_series)
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> [en.wikipedia.org])

McMurtry is an excellent writer of fiction. The Blue Duck in his story was a renegade Kiowa, and was never a great tribal leader. Satanta was a great chief, who led his people well. He was tried for murder, along with Satank, a lesser man who did make some of the sorts of claims that Blue Duck did in the novel. Probably the only similarity of that Blue Duck and Satanta was that Satanta did commit suicide while in prison, but it was not at his public hanging (none was ever planned for him, he was only sentenced to imprisonment) by jumping from a high tower.

The Wikipedia links you provided lead not to articles, but to Wikipedia pages stating that there are no articles by the names mentioned.