Big Spotted Horse

[1]: 60 In 1852, the Pawnee tribe, while engaged in the summer buffalo hunt, on the Solomon Fork in what is now Kansas were attacked by a band of Plains Indians.

Big Spotted Horse was not aware of the damage he had done, but there was a great shout by the Pawnee, and, fighting their way to the warrior's body they discovered he was wearing a leather coat armor covered with metal discs- scalemail.

[1]: 57  It was winter and the raiders were caught in a blizzard and suffered frostbite, but arrived at the Pawnee village with the herd intact.

He was imprisoned in Fort Omaha for 5 months but eventually released as it was determined that there was no actual law forbidding horse raiding.

He made quite an impression of Officer Richard Henry Pratt, who described him as "a tall fine specimen of man who relished perilous service".

[9] While living in Oklahoma Big Spotted Horse served as scout during the Red River War in 1874.

Late in 1873, Indian Agent Jacob Troth appointed a group of Pawnees, including Big Spotted Horse, to approach any timber thieves and stop them.