``I am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers.
Curly, who was with us, will Tell you that I do not lie.`` So spoke White Man Runs Him, a Crow Indian who with five other Crow warriors had served as a scout for Custer\'s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, the day of the Battle known to generations of white Americans as.
Therefore, I shall speak only the truth in telling what I know of the fight on the Little Bighorn River where General Custer was killed. ``I am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers