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	Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Little Bighorn — which is also called Custer's last stand and Custer Massacre and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of the Greasy Grass — was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army.
		Sandoz, Mari., The Battle of the Little Bighorn.
		The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876: EyeWitness to History.com
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn (4359 words)

	The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876
		Quickly finding themselves in a desperate battle with little hope of any relief, Reno halted his charging men before they could be trapped, fought for ten minutes in dismounted formation, and then withdrew into the timber and brush along the river.
		After the battle, the Indians came through and stripped the bodies and mutilated all the uniformed soldiers, believing that the soul of a mutilated body would be forced to walk the earth for all eternity and could not ascend to heaven.
		Immediately after the battle, the myth emerged that they left him alone out of respect for his fighting ability, but few participating Indians knew who he was to have been so respectful.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /custer.htm (1172 words)

	Battle of Little Bighorn - MSN Encarta
		Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, American military engagement fought on June 25, 1876, in what is now Montana, between a regiment of the Seventh United States Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and a force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors.
		Unaware of the Native American strength, between 2,500 and 4,000 men, Custer disregarded arrangements to join Terry at the junction of the Bighorn and Little Bighorn rivers and prepared to attack at once.
		The battlefield, now known as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, was established as a national cemetery in 1879 and as a national monument in 1946, after becoming part of the National Park Service.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561369/Little_Bighorn_Battle_of_the.html (354 words)

	Battle of the Little Bighorn
		Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, American military engagement fought on June 25, 1876, in what is now Montana, between a regiment of the Seventh United States Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and a force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors.
		The discovery of gold in the nearby Black Hills in 1874 had led to an influx of white prospectors into Native American territory and to attacks on the prospectors by the Sioux, under Chiefs Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Gall.
		The battlefield, now known as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, was established as a national monument in 1886 and was known, until 1991, as the Custer Battlefield National Monument.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/littlebighorn.htm (281 words)

	Battle of the Little Bighorn Tribute Rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ensuing battle and defeat of the Cavalry troopers was to be immortalized as "Custer’s Last Stand." Though the outcome of the battle is well known, the facts of what transpired that day may never be completely revealed.
		Each Battle of the Little Bighorn Tribute rifle is a handsome working recreation of the immortal Winchester Model 1873 rifle produced by the master craftsmen of A. Uberti.
		The handsomely blued, 24-1/4 inch tapered octagonal barrel of the Battle of the Little Bighorn Tribute Rifle is complemented perfectly by the elegantly decorated receiver.
	www.americaremembers.com /products/LBIGHORNRI/LBIGHORNRI.asp (775 words)

	Archeology at The Battle of the Little Bighorn
		June 25th marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
		At the battle of the Little Bighorn, these differences produced a conflagration which has illuminated these differences for the American public from 1876 to the present.
		Ramifications of the event aside, it is clear from the newly reinterpreted multidisciplinary sources that the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors outnumbered, outgunned, and outfought the soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry, giving the army its worst defeat of the entire Indian Wars.
	www.cr.nps.gov /mwac/libi/index.html (565 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - The Battle of Little Bighorn
		The Sioux were camped on the Little Bighorn river as follows: The lodges of the Uncpapas were pitched highest up the river under a bluff.
		All the Sioux now charged the soldiers and drove them in confusion across the Little Bighorn river, which was very rapid, and several soldiers were drowned in it.
		The banks of the Little Bighorn river were high, and the Sioux killed many of the soldiers while crossing.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/six/bighorn.htm (1215 words)

	The Battle of the Little Bighorn - Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
		The battle is remembered today as being a successful armed attempt by the Sioux and Cheyenne to preserve traditional ways in the face of inevitable cultural change brought about by the expansion of European Americans.
		This well-watered region of the Powder, Rosebud, Bighorn, and Yellowstone Rivers had always been good hunting grounds and there was plenty of grass to nourish their horses.
		Terry and Gibbon, with the slowly moving infantry would approach from the north, and the Indians, who were supposedly encamped somewhere along the Little Bighorn, would be so completely enclosed as to make their escape virtually impossible.
	www.nps.gov /libi/battle.html (2313 words)

	Indian Memorial - Little Bighorn Battlefield NM
		In 1879, the Little Bighorn Battlefield was designated a national cemetery administered by the War Department.
		The essential irony of the Battle of the Little Bighorn is that the victors lost their nomadic way of life after their victory.
		One hundred and twenty-four years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this new Indian Memorial brings all Americans full circle, to a theme of "Peace Through Unity." The campaign to build the Indian Memorial, which will cost $2.5 million, is an undertaking where your support can make a difference.
	www.nps.gov /libi/indmem.htm (558 words)

	Little Bighorn
		The U.S. army responded to the battle of the Little Bighorn by increasing the number of the soldiers in the area.
		The valley of the creek was followed toward the Little Big Horn, Custer on the right of the creek, Reno on the left of it, Benteen off still farther to the left and not in sight.
		What the Indians did at the Little Big Horn, or the Custer Massacre, as it was called, and how the battle was fought on their side, was perfectly familiar to them.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWbighorn.htm (10307 words)

	Battle of the Little Bighorn
		IN BRIEF Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of the June 25, 1876 battle between the US Army's seventh cavalry, guided by Crow and Arikara...
		Treaty of 1868 and Battle of Little Bighorn
		Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by...
	www.livewithjt.com /Custer/links.htm (1002 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Battle of the Little Bighorn: Books: Mari Sandoz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conversations between participants in the battle are invented and thoughts placed in the minds of people long dead.
		Lapses in my mind is the belief that Custer was seeking the Presidency with a flamboyant attack, that Benteen was telling the absolute truth that he was to go valley hunting to infinity and that the native Americans fought with command signals moving almost as troops.
		Mari Sandoz vividly re-tells the Battle of Little Bighorn.
	www.amazon.ca /Battle-Little-Bighorn-Mari-Sandoz/dp/0803291000 (839 words)

	Archeology at The Battle of the Little Bighorn
		In Archaeological Perspectives On the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox, Jr., Melissa A. Connor, and Dick Harmon, pps 283-298.
		In Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox Jr., Melissa Connor, and Dick Harmon, pp.
		1988a A Sharps Rifle from the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
	www.cr.nps.gov /mwac/libi/bibliography.html (3417 words)

	Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Battle of Little Big Horn, also popularly called Custer's Last Stand, took place on June 25, 1876 and was a victory of a large force of Lakota and their allies including the Cheyenne over the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army which attacked their village.
		The widow of Custer helped popularize this defeat in memory of her husband and the event as recreated in numerous films as a heroic American general fighting valiently against savage forces.
		Wind on the Buffalo Grass, The Indians' Own Account of the Battle at the Little Big Horn River, & the Death of their Life on the Plains
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /ba/Battle_of_Little_Bighorn.html (157 words)

	Talk:Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of the Little Bighorn has been listed as a good article under the good-article criteria.
		Keep in mind that "survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn" would technically encompass all the Indians who lived, as well as most of Reno and Benteen's columns, as the Reno fight was indeed a part of the battle.
		It is inappropriate to put an NPOV tag on an historical article merely because the extent of the historical record varies among the participants in the event; e.g., the article on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is not non-neutral because it relies on Roman sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn (3879 words)

	The Infography about the Battle of the Little Bighorn
		The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the battle between the Native Americans and the U.S. Seventh Calvary commanded by General George Armstrong Custer.
		Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
		Little Bighorn Battlefield: A History and Guide to the Little Bighorn Battle.
	www.infography.com /content/368097625378.html (243 words)

	The Battle of the Little Bighorn - University of Nebraska Press (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mari Sandoz's account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life—and lost—reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject.
		The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of Custer's men, the Plains landscape—all emerge with such clarity that the reader is transported in time to that spring of 1876, when the Army of the Plains began its fateful march toward the Yellowstone.
		The background of the tragedy is here: the history of bad blood and broken treaties between the Sioux Nation and the United States, the underlying reason for Custer's expedition and for the convocation of Indians on the Little Bighorn that particular year.
	www.nebraskapress.unl.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /bookinfo/1319.html (327 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle of the Little Bighorn: Books: Mari Sandoz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We will never know of course, but Mari Sandoz, in her beautifully written and deeply felt story of his legendary and much disputed battle, provides a suitable coda to that drama of a century ago.
		Since she knew some of the participants in this battle (Indians) she vividly recreates what the battle must have been like.
		I think it stupid that he went into battle after dividing his command in the face of a huge number of foe.
	www.amazon.com /Battle-Little-Bighorn-Mari-Sandoz/dp/0803291000 (1668 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Cornerstones of Freedom (Paperback)): Books: Conrad R. Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The story of the worst defeat ever suffered by the United States Army at the hands of the American Indians near the Little Bighorn River in Montana on June 25, 1876.
		Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull, American Indians, Black Hills, Great Plains, United States, Crazy Horse, Plains Indians, General Crook, George Armstrong Custer, Rosebud Creek, Sun Dance, White Bull
		It made me want to learn more about the battle of little big horn, and I hope to read more of R.Conrad Stien's work in the future
	www.amazon.com /Little-Bighorn-Cornerstones-Freedom-Paperback/dp/0516261363 (775 words)

	The BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN
		Columns of U.S. troops were sent to end the matter once and for all.
		By chance, the Little Bighorn River became the place for the last, large-scale, clash of cultures that comprised the 400 year long Indian Wars.
		To discuss the events with others, visit the NEW
	www.mohicanpress.com /battles/ba04000.html (128 words)

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