(Indians had removed their dead shortly after the battle ... trying to preserve their nomadic way of life. "This was Custer's last stand," said John Doerner, "but it was also the last stand ...

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 ...

Custer's Last Stand took place at the Little Bighorn River, where he led over two hundred soldiers into battle against thousands of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. (Still Image: Library of Congress ...

Shock and outrage over what was called "Custer's Last Stand" hastened the government's campaign against the Indians. By the following year, the Sioux had been forced to retreat into Canada.

The design reduced wind drag as the soldiers advanced. Custer's last battle was part of the United States government's 1876-77 campaign to retake the Black Hills region, ceded in perpetuity by an ...