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TIL in 1864 near Platte Valley, Nebraska where George Martin and his two sons were attacked by Sioux warriors near their homestead. As the boys fled on horseback, a single arrow pierced both pinning them together and causing them to fall; though presumed dead they survived to tell the story.

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