After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

In death, Custer became a hero, the subject of songs, books, and poems. Ironically, the man who had led an attack on a peaceful Sioux village was remembered as the victim of a massacre.

we have full particulars in regard to the massacre at Red Canyon, a short time since, is which several persons lost their lives. Mr. Sterk left Custer City April 14, at 10'clock in the afternoon.

Col. George A.] Custer and his outnumbered command with a rain of fire.” Godfrey described the aftermath in his field journal on June 28, 1876: “We found the bodies strewn from a few hundred ...

In 1874, the U.S. government sent General George Custer on the Black Hills Expedition ... in 1873 had left many U.S. citizens looking to the western frontier for quick wealth and a fresh start.

MEDORA, N.D. ( North Dakota Monitor) – A park in western North Dakota that owed its name to a United States military officer ...

Today the attack is often known, to the extent it is known at all, as the Blue Water Massacre, but for more ... the rout of ...

said to have been smoked by Chief Crazy Horse when he decided (after the Custer massacre in 1876) to surrender and return to the reservation. The gifts were ill-timed. The six-month waltz of ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.--A brigade of more than 300 students from Western Michigan University's Haworth College of Business are enlisting in the college's second annual community service project at Fort ...

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The application period for summer 2024 is now closed. The Custer Book Loan program is offered as a result of a generous donation by David Custer, CEO of Custer Inc. and sponsor of the Custer Speaker ...

(Amy Dalrymple/North Dakota Monitor) A park in western North Dakota that owed its name to a United States military officer involved in the massacre of two Sioux Nation villages in the late 19th ...