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He was overconfident. He was one of several men who bragged that with 80 men he could ride through the whole Sioux Nation. He was also not the only one to say that who later meet his doom at the hands of the Sioux.

Lakota, actually. They were pretty big fans of taking scalps. It was a big deal that Crazy Horse didn't because of a vision he had.

My mother tells me that Natives actually learned how to take scalps as a way of keeping score from white folks. Specifically during the French and Indian War because they were paid bounties on how many they killed, and it was a way of having physical proof of killing someone. I have no idea if...