The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most famous and most misunderstood events in American history. On June 25, ...

The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate exactly how the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne secured their victory ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

It's general knowledge that when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was killed battling more than 2,000 Indians on that grassy slope overlooking the Little Bighorn River in Montana on June 25, 1876, ...

Preparations. Through June 12 (Philip H. Sheridan to George W. Cass ; W. Milnor Roberts to Cass ; Roberts to Thomas L. Rosser and Cass ; Montgomery Meigs to his family ; Rosser's diary, May 22-June 12 ...