Although he was already a popular figure in his own time, the disaster at the Little Bighorn forever secured his place in the American mind and mythology.
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Frederick W. Benteen
Though he displayed daring and audacity during his military career, Benteen would probably not be remembered today if not for his supporting role at the Little Bighorn more than 125 years ago.
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The Last Stand of Crazy Horse
After helping his people win the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the daring Oglala leader fought thesoldiers again at Slim Buttes in September 1876 and the Wolf Mountains in January 1877 before finally surrendering at Camp Robinson that May.
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Sitting Bull and the Mounties
After the Little Bighorn and other 1876 confrontations with the U.S. Army, the great Hunkpapa Sioux Leader took his people north into Canada, where James Walsh and other scarlet-clad lawmen insisted on enforcing the white mother’s laws.
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Buffalo Bill’s Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek
Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken ‘the first scalp for Custer!’ And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage.
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The Fatal Fetterman Fight
Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army’s greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.
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Book Review: Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer (Jeffry D. Wert) : ACW
George Armstrong Custer’s controversial life ended in an equally controversial death at the Little Bighorn.
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Civil War Art, in the Round and Mobile
Polyoramas—well-traveled predecessors of the popular postwar cycloramas—captivated audiences both north and south.
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The World’s Most Visitor-Friendly Battlefields
These hallowed grounds are musts for anyone looking to honor those who fought and learn from their wins and losses.
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A Monument to Defeat…and Victory
It is a tale as familiar to Western history buffs today as it was […]