american-holocaust

"In one square of less than half an acre there were forty-eight bodies stiffened bythe frost," observed reporter Carl Smith. "One had a face which was hideous toview .... He had originally fallen on his face, and he must have lain in thatposition for some time, as it was flattened on one side. His hands were clenched,his teeth were clenched. . . . One hand was raised in the air . . . frozen in thatposition." A rifle was placed as a prop at the dead medicine man's side, to suggestthat a battle, rather than a massacre, had occurred. The photograph laterwas retouched to conceal the dead man's genitals, exposed when his trouserswere shot away.