As Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his thousand-man expedition meandered south and west to the Black Hills in the summer of 1874, there were more than soldiers making the trip. A black woman called Aunt Sally was along as a cook; sixty or seventy Arikaras and Santee Sioux were scouts; five journalists tagged along; an engineering detachment and a party of scientists included a geologist, paleontologist and botanist; there were two prospectors; and also on the trail was William H.