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	The Mediadrome - History - Little Big Horn
		On June 25, 1876 at Little Big Horn, Custer divided his forces into three battalions and Reno was given Companies A, G and M. As one of the only senior officers to survive, he became the target of assertions of cowardice as attempts were made to assign responsibility for the massacre.
		the command was in the valley of one of the branches of the Little Big Horn.
		They made their approaches through the deep gulches that led from the hill-top to the river, and, when the jealous care with which the Indian guards the bodies of killed and wounded is considered, it is not astonishing that their bodies were not found.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/little_big_horn.htm (2417 words)

	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.
		As the larger wing of Terry's troops, Custer's force arrived at an overlook 14 miles (23 km) east of the Little Bighorn River in what is now the state of Montana, on the night of June 24.
		By the end of the 20th Century, the general recognition of the mistreatment of the various Native American nations in the conquest of the American West, and the perception of Custer's role in it, have changed the image of the battle and of Custer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Little_Big_Horn (2439 words)

	Little Big Horn College - Crow Agency MT USA
		Little Big Horn College is a public two year community college chartered by the Crow Tribe of Indians in 1980.
		Little Big Horn College was granted accreditation status in 1990 by the accrediting organization The Northwest Association of Schools and of Colleges and Universities.
		Little Big Horn College has an open admissions policy and as a public institution welcomes enrollment from any adult 18 years of age with a high school diploma or GED.
	main.lbhc.cc.mt.us /about/index.html (502 words)

	Kels NICKELL & Tom HORN
		The deaths of both were to be avenged by the hangman's noose-in the case of John DeSha Nickell, on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, near Sandusky, Ohio, and in the case of Willie Nickell, on the morning of November 20, 1903, in the courtyard of the Laramie County Jail at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
		As Isaac Newton was attempting to throw a two-inch seagrass rope attached to a raft around a large tree on the bank of the river to anchor it for the night, he accidentally got his leg between the large rope and the tree trunk.
		Horn exhausted all appeals, and after one jail escape attempt, was hanged for the murder of Willie Nickell.
	nickell.tierranet.com /tales/kels.htm (5178 words)

	Battle of Little Big Horn (Part Two) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		the valley of the Little Big Horn River.
		As Custer and his men descended to the Big Horn River, they were met with rifle fire from the Sioux.
		He claimed that the Big Horn River was red with the blood of the dead.
	www.btigerlily.net /BTLittleBigHorn2.html (1127 words)

	Miles of History 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since this was minted just two years prior to our centennial and Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn, I have included some interesting narrative of events.
		Located in Southern Montana Territory on the banks of the Little Big Horn River, the Battle of the Little Big Horn also known as Custer's Last Stand took place on June 25, 1876.
		Now the effort was to crush the Indians as if to personally seek revenge for the death of the soldiers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
	www.collectorsnet.com /miles/img2a.html (202 words)

	Litttle Big Horn, Chief Red Horse, George Armstrong Custer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the banks of the Little Big Horn River was the largest concentration of indians in the history.
		Captain Benteen and his cavallry was sent to the west to cut off the indians retreat to the south, and Major Reno was supposed to cross the river and attack the southern part of the camp, while Custer should support Reno, but Custer decided later to attack the center of the camp with his cavallry.
		As she was fetching horses by the river she hit and killed 2 soldiers who had fled from the battlefield and were going to swim over the river.
	hem.passagen.se /psof/Redhorse.htm (4645 words)

	Battle of the Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the Battle of the Little Big Horn, there were mixed versions as to what happened.
		That night his scouts informed Custer that the Sioux were camped in the valley of the Little Big Horn River.
		Horned Horse claimed that the Sioux camp was so large that it stretched for nearly 8 km.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /battle_of_the_little_big_horn1.htm (1189 words)

	Little Bighorn
		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.
		Evidently his object was to inclose the Indians, but he placed at least fifty miles of rough country and an impassable river between the two columns, necessitating the giving of discretionary authority to the commander of the column thus isolated and moving into a country known to be occupied by a powerful body of Indians.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWbighorn.htm (10307 words)

	Battle of the Little Big Horn - AskTheBrain.com
		Originally, soldiers were told to extract jammed cartridges with their knives, but after the Little Big Horn battle in 1876, the shell was redesigned and thereafter the carbine proved quite satisfactory in combat.
		In 1873, three years before the Battle at the Little Big Horn, Custer and 1,500 troops were at Pompeys Pillar as protection for 375 civilian surveyors who were working on a trans-continental railroad survey through the Yellowstone Valley.
		Many were war horses and had been in the battle of Little Big Horn for they carried the scars from the rifles of General Custers troops.
	www.askthebrain.com /battle_big_horn_little-.html (430 words)

	Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Terry, Gibbon, and Custer determined to send Custer's cavalry south along the Rosebud Creek toward the Little Big Horn and Crook's column to find the Indian camp.
		On June 25th, traveling along a ridge overlooking the Little Big Horn, Custer found the camp and determined to attack with his 600 men.
		They may have been moving again to cross the river and attack the camp, but they became spread out and the Indians attacked and killed them to a man. The stone markers show where their bodies were found.
	members.cox.net /johnahamill/custer.html (370 words)

	The Battle of the Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of the Little Big Horn ensured for General George Custer the fame he had always wanted.
		Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were in the hills of the Big Horn Mountains so any attack was not going to be easy especially as the Sioux knew their territory well while the US army did not.
		Terry had correctly guessed that the Sioux were camped in the Big Horn Valley and wanted a two-pronged attack to trap the Sioux in their camp while they were being attacked leaving no way out for them.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /battle_of_the_little_big_horn.htm (1824 words)

	BBC - History - Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn
		On 25 June, 1876, the Battle of Little Big Horn took place on the banks of the Little Big Horn river, Montana, USA.
		Custer divided his forces to combat the Indians, and all 210 men in the five companies under his direct command were killed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/custer_battle_01.shtml (305 words)

	Battle of the Little Bighorn : Battle of the Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Battle of the Little Bighorn : Battle of the Little Big Horn.
	www.eurofreehost.com /ba/Battle_of_the_Little_Big_Horn.html (308 words)

	Little Big Horn ~ Retelling history helps heal tensions
		One-hundred-twenty-five years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull fight again for the future of this dusty piece of America framed by the dark Big Horn Mountains in the distant horizon.
		Big Horn County is 59 percent American Indian.
		One-hundred-and-twenty-five years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, both groups of re-enactors here are still borrowing from that past to try and shape the future.
	www.bluecloud.org /bighorn-2.html (2589 words)

	army
		The Little Big Horn battle was easily the worst defeat ever sustained by the U.S. Army in Plains Indian warfare with the 7th Cavalry suffering 268 killed or dying of wounds, and 62 wounded.
		Many fascinating possibilities about the Little Big Horn battle are thoroughly investigated and analyzed, and the movements and actions of all elements of the regiment visualized in a series superimposed on the USGS contour map of the battlefield.
		The battle of the Little Big Horn in picturesque perspective being a pictorial representation of the late and unfortunate incident in Montana as portrayed by Custer's friends and foes, admirers and iconoclasts of his day and after.
	www.custerbooks.com /littlebighornbattle.htm (16183 words)

	Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Custer were traveling north along the banks of the Little Big Horn River seeking to learn the extent of the huge hostile village on the river’s southern bank.
		Custer detached Keogh’s wing composed of troops C, I, and L to hold the hostiles at the ford while Yate’s wing, E and F troops, accompanied Custer in a move to the second ford, Deep coulee.
		Apparently the whoops of the savages and the racket of their war rattles, as well as the unexpected mass of hostiles proved to be too much for man and horse to bear (Confused Withdrawal.) As Keogh’s men fell back from the river the hostiles, led by the Cheyenne war chief Lame White Man swarmed across.
	www.piquet.org /BattleReports/2.htm (438 words)

	Battle Of Little Big Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Depicted in films and novels, the battle at the Little Big Horn River, located in what is now Montana, proved to be the death of U.S. Army General George Armstrong Custer and 265 men from his Seventh Cavalry Regiment.
		This is the manner it which he attacked the village at the Little Big Horn.
		Thus, Custer's attack at the Little Big Horn can be seen as something much more than as a reckless attack against superior numbers.
	www.davidstuff.com /historical/custer.htm (665 words)

	U of M Workshop at Little Big Horn College
		The Little Big Horn College Archives: Crow Indian Historical and Cultural Collection was established in 1989 as a part of the Little Big Horn College Library.
		The Little Big Horn Archives is a most valuable resource for the Crow community and for the students, faculty, and staff of Little Big Horn College.
		The Little Big Horn College Archives promotes the culture and history of the Crow Indians through the preservation of manuscripts, personal papers, official reports, photographs, and video/audio recordings on the historical and contemporary life of the Crow Indian people.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHPI/lbhc/archintro.htm (375 words)

	big horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		schulfragen zum thema schlacht am little big horn
		little horn, kampf am little horn, battle of little horn
		big horn river outfitters is a small family owned and
	www.infofokus.de /horn/big.html (76 words)

	Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (National Park Service)
		Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (National Park Service)
		In the spring and summer of 1876 the United States Government launched a military campaign upon a portion of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who refused to live within the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation.
		In the Valley of the Little Bighorn River, the Seventh Cavalry and their Indian allies attacked the village of 8,000 to 10,000 people, on June 25th,1876.
	www.nps.gov /libi (332 words)

	Colonel Custer, Cavalry, 7th Cavalry, Battle Little Big Horn - Historical Guns
		Cavalry attacked a village of Indians in the valley of the Little Big Horn River in Montana.
		Gibbon would be ferried across to the mouth of the Big Horn and then march into the Little Big Horn Valley from the North.
		Custer was ordered not to use the trail discovered by Reno to avoid forewarning the Indians of their presence, otherwise he was given freedom to act as he deemed appropriate.
	www.historicalguns.com /history.asp (1317 words)

	"The Last Command: Custer and the 7th Cavalry" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Custer's 12 companies of cavalry neared the Valley of the little Big Horn River, it was discovered that the Indian village they were seeking was straight ahead, camped on the little Big Horn.
		As the column approached the Little Big Horn River, mounted Indian warriors were sighted ahead of the column moving westward toward the river.
		After a short skirmish in the valley, Reno broke contact with the Indians and retreated to the bluffs on the eastside of the Little Big Horn River and immediately setup a defensive perimeter.
	www.indianwars.org /laststand.htm (816 words)

	Indian War Period Medal of Honor Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Citation: Held the left of the line with a few men during the charge of a large body of Indians, after the right of the line had retreated, and by delivering a rapid fire succeeded in checking the enemy until other troops came to the rescue.
		Citation: With a force of 40 men rode all night to the relief of a command that had been defeated and was besieged by an overwhelming force of Indians, reached the field at daylight, joined in the action and fought for 3 days.
		Citation: Gallantry in action with hostile Sioux, at Little Muddy Creek, Mont.; having been wounded in the hip so as to be unable to stand, at Camas Meadows, Idaho, he still continued to direct the men under his charge until the enemy withdrew.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/mohind.htm (12834 words)

	HORN
		Few events have captured the interest and the imagination of the American people over such a long period of time as the battle that took place at the Little Big Horn River in Montana.
		The Battle of the Little Big Horn took place on June 25, l876 and from the time the news reached a shocked nation till today it has become a part of our history and legend that never wanes or loses its appeal.
		George Custer, in command of the 7th Cavalry and a hero of the Civil War, came toward the Little Big Horn from the North as part of a three column offensive by the U. Army.
	home.earthlink.net /~hilbers/horn.html (832 words)

	United States v. Powers, 305 U.S. 527, 59 S.Ct. 344, 83 L.Ed. 330 (1939)
		This water is essential to the cultivation of respondents' lands allotted more than twenty years ago to members of the tribe and presently held under properly acquired fee simple titles.
		989, 1040, mentions another conveyance by the Crows to the United States and appropriates $200,000 to be expended under direction of the Secretary of the Interior for irrigation in the valleys of the Big Horn and Little Big Horn Rivers and on Pryor Creek, within the diminished Reservation.
		The action of the Secretary of the Interior in determining the legal heirs of any deceased Indian, as provided herein, shall in all respects be conclusive and final.' 25 U.S.C.A. §404 note.
	www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/USSCT_Cases/US_v_Powers_305_527.htm (1113 words)

	Army Medals Of Honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Little Big Horn River, MT Co. B, 7th Cavalry
		Little Big Horn River, MT Co. A, 7th Cavalry
		Little Big Horn River, MT Co. H, 7th Cavalry
	personal.picusnet.com /rle/army1in2.htm (1201 words)

	George A. Custer
		The Indians were discovered encamped on the Little Big Horn River, in a region almost unknown.
		On 23 Feb., 1866, he was appointed second lieutenant in the 1st infantry of the regular army, and on 28 July was promoted to a first lieutenancy in his brother's regiment, the 7th cavalry, with which he served on frontier duty until he fell beside his brother in the battle of the Little Big Horn.
		Custer, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the impact of this battle on...
	www.georgearmstrongcuster.com (2663 words)

	EARLY FORD COUNTY, by Ida Rath, Ch. 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They were proud of their cattlemen and the big herds that grazed on the big ranches.
		The expenses were paid by the owners of the big ranches in return for having their brands displayed on the hat bands.
		The band was uniformed in regular cowboy fashion-boots and spurs, blue flannel shirt, big white hats, a silk scarf instead of a necktie, and a belt and brace of guns.
	www.ku.edu /kansas/ford/rath2/17.html (5421 words)

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