<span>Andrew Jackson claimed a corrupt bargain had taken place. </span>
<span>The natives felt strongly because Custer was attacking their homes, which contained women and children, and the army had a custom of taking no prisoners, killing every single person, even infants and mutilating the bodies for trophies and scalping the dead.</span>
The lives of typical Western homesteaders in the late 1800s were fairly "bleak", since not only did they have to fend for themselves almost entirely when it came to providing their families with food and shelter--they also had to fight off hostile Natives.
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