Americans were in shock in early July 1876. It wasn’t supposed to have been that way. It was the country’s centennial, after all, a time for a national party. Instead, stunning news came from the ...
BRAINERD — People may not remember the Battle of Little Big Horn. But they’ve almost certainly heard of Custer’s Last Stand. They are one and the same, however, with the latter popularized as an ...
Blackfoot, chief of the Mountain Crow, had plenty to trouble him on April 8, 1876, when Col. John Gibbon rode out of a wet spring blizzard and into the Crow Agency compound on the Rosebud Creek near ...
On June 25, 1876, George Armstrong Custer and some 265 men under his command died in the Battle of Little Big Horn, often referred to as Custer's Last Stand. We all know the term, but what is the ...
As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able assistance of Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian. As president, Grant tried with little success to ensure peaceful relations with Native ...
Americans were in shock in early July 1876. It wasn’t supposed to have been that way. It was the country’s centennial, after all, a time for a national party. Instead, stunning news came from the ...
Prologue: a good day to die -- The divine injunction -- "The boy general of the golden lock" -- Patriots -- Outside the states -- Belknap's Anaconda -- "Submitt to Uncl Sam or kill the 7 hors" -- "The ...
Wednesday marked the anniversary of an iconic moment of American history: Custer's Last Stand, the culmination of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's disastrous attack on a coalition of Lakota Sioux, ...
""The line is paper-thin between audacity, one of the greatest of all military virtues, and recklessness, one of the greatest vices,"" proclaims Richard S. Wheeler in his foreword to Custer and the ...
The battle fought this week (June 25) in 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana, pitted Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and 210 members of the Seventh Cavalry against a far larger force of ...
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After Custer: The end of the Northern Cheyenne
On June 25th, 1876, the historic Battle of Little Bighorn unfolded, marking the final ride of General George Armstrong Custer. Facing an overwhelming force of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors, Custer and ...
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