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Leonard J. Bornstein, 96, of New Sharon, Maine passed away on December 8, 2023, in Lake Worth, Florida after a few months surrounded by loving family. Leonard was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 9, 1927, at the start of the Great Depression. He was a graduate of Boy's High School, earned a bachelor's
Cody was asked to encourage Sitting Bill to report to the nearest commanding officer of U.S. troops. His group was intercepted by an interpreter who said Sitting Bull was not home and heading to Fort Yates on another trail.
True West Magazine “Who was California Joe?” asked J.W. Buel in his Heroes of the Plains published in 1882, for Joe’s origin was as much a mystery to his contemporaries as it was for many who came later. Some claimed his name was Joseph Milner (favored by Buffalo Bill Cody) or Joseph Hawkins, and others claimed that he was Truman Head, the famous “California Joe” of Col. Hiram Berdan’s Civil War Sharpshooters. Even Custer admitted that he did not know Joe’s real name, for “no other name seemed ever to have been given him, and no other name ever seemed necessary.”