The name George Custer is etched in the annals of U.S. and Montana history for the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Less well-known is that Custer may have been the man who won the Civil War. The ...

Gen. Custer attacked the Indians in their village, and the fighting was fierce and desperate, resulting in the death of Gen. Custer, his two brothers, nephew and brother in law, and all his detachment ...

CROW AGENCY - Red granite headstones marking the approximate locations where three of the Northern Cheyenne Suicide Boys died are to be unveiled and dedicated June 25 on the 129th anniversary of the ...

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 ...

Books are still being written about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the dramatic finale to the 10-year campaign Gen. George Custer waged against nomadic legions of the Western Plains, from what is ...

I just read the letter in the May 25 Forum written by Tom Berger. Berger said 130 years ago brevet Major Gen. George A Custer and 760 officers and men started out for Montana to bring back 800 hostile ...

Custer s legend began with his participation in the cavalry engagement during the third day of battle at Gettysburg. Gen. Robert E. Lee sent his cavalry under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart to strike at the ...

“The Sioux say this officer was the bravest man they had ever fought.” — Sioux Chief Red Horse, 1881. “History is not history unless it is the truth.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1856. We’ve all heard the ...

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...