One man is directly related to two popular trivia questions: "Name the only survivor of Col. George Armstrong Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn" and "During the time of Custer, ...

On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer led the 7th Cavalry under his command on an attack against an Indian encampment at Little Big Horn. The incident is now commonly known as ...

Say the name "George Armstrong Custer" and immediately visions usually come to mind of hordes of Native American warriors circling an outnumbered band of desperate U.S. 7th Cavalry troopers. Custer, ...

A historic Montana town – home to a whopping two residents – is going on the auction block. Garryowen, Mont., located on the battlefield where Gen. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry made its ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

On June 25th and 26th, 1876, the face of the American West and military history forever changed. The Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, was a turning point battle in which ...

Gen. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry fights Sioux Indians at Fort Larned in an 1867 edition of Harpers Weekly. The burning of an Indian village led to the deaths a day later of three station ...

The father of farming in Burleigh County, N.D., was a former U.S. congressman, rose to the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War, and, as the oldest officer of the 7th Cavalry, served at Col.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward ...

WASHINGTON — Historical accounts of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn report that many of Gen. George Custer’s 7th Cavalry soldiers shot themselves to avoid being killed by Native American ...