The June 1876 firefight along the winding banks of the Little Bighorn River lasted less than twenty-four hours, yet its reverberations have spanned fifteen decades. Known to the U.S. Army as the Battle of Little Bighorn and to the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne as the Battle of Greasy Grass, the engagement resulted in the […]

On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, along the winding banks of the Little Bighorn River in the Montana Territory, the United States was forced to confront the limits of its expansionist ambitions. What the U.S. Army intended to be a routine containment operation against "hostile" tribes instead became a seismic military disaster that resulted […]

On a sweltering afternoon in late June 1876, along the winding banks of the Little Bighorn River in the Montana Territory, a clash of civilizations reached a bloody and definitive crescendo. The Battle of Little Bighorn—known to the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne as the Battle of Greasy Grass—lasted less than twenty-four hours, yet it […]