Introduction

Alaxchíiahush with a buffalo robe over his shoulders seated facing the left and holding his biography.

Alaxchíiahush holding an original copy of American: The Life Story of a Great Indian: Plenty-coups, Chief of the Crows, ca. 1930

Alaxchíiahush / Many Achievements (ca. 1848-1932), or Plenty Coups, of the Apsáalooke / Children of a Long Beaked Bird, was a chief of the Ashalaho / Many Lodges (Mountain Crows). He was also known in his early life as Chíilaphuchissaaleesh / Buffalo Bull Facing the Wind. Plenty Coups was a member of the Ashíiooshe / Sore Lip Clan and the Lump Wood warrior society.