Search Results: Battle of the Little Bighorn

The Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) is the most famous engagement of the Great Sioux War (1876-1877). Five companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) were wiped out in one day by the...

Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), lithograph by American artist Charles Marion Russell (l. 1864-1926), 1903. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, USA, 1889. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Red Horse (Tasunka Luta, l. c. 1822-1907) was a chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux best known for his firsthand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) and his 42 ledger book drawings depicting the engagement. The...

Black Elk (l. 1863-1950) of the Oglala Lakota Sioux was twelve years old at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on 25 June 1876. He gives his account of the famous conflict in the work Black Elk Speaks (1932), and, even at a distance from the...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn of June 25-26 1876, deerskin painting by an unknown Cheyenne artist, c. 1878. National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

Modern-day site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy Grass), June 1876.

Pretty Nose (l. c. 1851-1952), Arapaho (possibly Arapaho-Cheyenne) warrior who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. She lived to be 101 years old. Photo taken at Fort Keogh, Montana, 1879.

Hear the stories of Custer's last stand as the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry fought against the Sioux and Cheyenne. See the battlefield that looks almost as it did on June 25, 1876, and hear what happened that day from site interpreter Steve Adelson...

Little Wolf (Ohcumgache, also known as Little Coyote, l. c. 1820-1904) was a Northern Cheyenne chief and holy man, best known for his role in the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878 but also recognized for his resistance to US westward expansion...