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August 22, 2022

The Story

Portraits of the key characters

Through the creative pen of historian, author and presenter Steve Adelson, go back in time to that fateful day, June 25, 1876 when Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his vaunted 7th Cavalry Regiment attempt to bludgeon the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes back onto reservations. Desperate to defend the last vestiges of their existence, Warriors inspired by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Two Moons, and others, fight back fiercely along a swollen river called Little Bighorn. The epic battle will become legendary and most commonly be known as Custer’s Last Stand.

 

Photograph credits

  1. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) | George L. Andrews. National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the ARC Identifier (National Archives Identifier) 558719 | Public Domain
  2. Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842-1933) | Public Domain
  3. Sitting Bull, Tantanka Iyotaka, Hunkpapa Sioux Leader (1834-1890) | David Francis Barry | U.S. Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division, digital ID cph.3c11147 | Public Domain
  4. Capt. Frederick W. Benteen (1834-1898) |  Public Domain
  5. Gall / Phizi, Hunkpapa Sioux Warrior Chief (1838-1894) |National Archives and Records Administration. NARA 286058 | Public Domain
  6. Major Marcus Albert Reno (1834–1889) | Public Domain
  7. Crazy Horse (literal translation: his horse is crazy) (1840-1877) | Alleged photo of Crazy Horse in 1877 | Public Domain
  8. Giovanni Martini (1852-1922) (John Martin) c. 1904 | public domain
  9. Sioux Chief Rain in the Face | Courtesy of National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Accession LIBI-00312, D.F. Barry, “Rain in the Face” Cat #LIBI 11175
  10. Captain Thomas W. Custer, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel (1845-1876) | Courtesy of National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Accession LIBI-00019,  “Col. Tom Custer”, c. 1872, Cat #LIBI 00526
  11. Cheyenne Chief Two Moons, Ft. Keogh (1847-1917) |Courtesy of National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Accession LIBI-00030, L. A. Huffman, 1878, Cat #LIBI 007

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