

7th Cavalry Regiment authorizing the Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota Sioux.

Hopkins and his mustang, Hidalgo, are part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, where they are advertised as "the world's greatest endurance horse and rider." Hopkins had been a famous long-distance rider, a cowboy, and a dispatch rider for the United States government in the latter capacity he carried a message to the U.S.
