a deeply American mystique.

那种深刻的美洲文化的神秘性
And then came the news right after the 4th of July

七月四日[独立日]之后有这么一条新闻
where some real Indians rudely interrupted all the celebrations.

一群真正的印第安人粗暴地打断了所有庆祝
The news arrived that General George Armstrong Custer

乔治·阿姆斯特朗·卡斯特将军
had been defeated, indeed wiped out,

战败被杀的消息传来
all his men killed-- well almost all-- by the Sioux,

他的将士几乎全部被
led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse,

坐牛和疯马领导的苏族所杀
at a place called Little Bighorn.

这一切都发生在小比格霍恩河
Custer's Last Stand,

卡斯特的最后一战
images of which would end up behind the bar

多少人本该在密西西比州以西的
in every saloon west of the Mississippi,

酒吧里开怀畅饮
and a hell of a lot of them east of the Mississippi,

最终却只能在那个世纪末