Son of the Morning Star

Proper noun

Son of the Morning Star

1. The Crow name for George Armstrong Custer.
   • He told me that Hairy-moccasin, a Crow Wolf, had first discovered the big enemy village and told Son-of-the-morning-star, and that he, Half-yellow-face, had then tried to stop Son-of-the-morning-star from attacking it.1930, Frank B. Linderman, quoting Plenty Coups, Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, published 1962, page 175
   • He [Hunting Horse] pictured a snorting, wild buffalo he had cornered in a shallow cave during his last hunt with “Sun^([sic])-Of-The-Morning-Star.”1956, Mary Ellen Ryan, “Custer’s Hunting Horse”, in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume XXXIV, number 1, page 332