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 ...

The only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana sold at auction Friday for $2.2 million.

What is known, beyond any doubt, is that Lieutenant Colonel (brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer, age 36, entered the Little Bighorn Valley of south-central Montana on June 25, 1876, with ...

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 ...

Sometimes to get remembered in history, you need a great publicist. This weekend marks the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn—also known as ‘Custer’s Last Stand’—a chapter in U.S.

The wrath of President Grant -- Glorious war -- Chasing shadows on the plains -- Death along the Washita -- Battling Sioux in Yellowstone country -- Black Hills, red spirits -- Prelude to war -- First ...

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 ...

I went through a box of books I hadn't opened since we moved six years ago, intending to send a stack to the neighborhood Little Free Library or to Books by the Pound in Argenta. My assumption: If I ...

In this labor of love, Donovan collects the multiple threads that led to the 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. By the 1870s various American Indian tribes ignored the American government’s edict to ...

This is the second of a three-part serialization from "Sweeping Across America; Broome County Citizens in American History," by this writer, about Lucian Burnham, a Broome County native who served ...

‘Custer’s Last Stand,’ an 1899 oil-on-canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson, depicts the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana from the point of view of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt.