Dean of Western historians Robert Utley details the life of Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull after the Little Bighorn
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Memory and the Rosebud
Northern Cheyenne and Lakota survivors of the Great Sioux War recalled the fight that preceded the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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The Worst Battlefield Blunders: Five Battles That Ended Badly
Battlefield blunders can be as decisive as brilliant tactics. Five of the worst military blunders came at the battles of Gallipoli, Fredericksburg, Dien Bien Phu, Adwa, and Little Bighorn.
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Interview: Joseph M. Marshall III / The Lakotas Won, But at What Cost?
Marshall on the Little Bighorn.
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Giovanni Martini: The Message Got Through
The Italian-born trumpeter has been a Little Bighorn scapegoat.
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Custer’s Ghostherders
Battlefield archaeologists digging at the Little Bighorn have reawakened haunting memories and revived some of the bitter controversies connected with the Last Stand.
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Book Review: The Victory With No Name / The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Colin Calloway recounts the most lopsided American Indian defeat of the U.S. Army—no, not on the Little Bighorn.
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Why Former Confederate Frank Huston Joined Forces With the Sioux
The “unreconstructed Reb” lived among the Lakotas but probably wasn’t at Little Bighorn.
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Author Philip Burnham
Philip Burnham’s biography of Dewey Beard is the remarkable saga of a Lakota who killed a trooper at the Little Bighorn and was wounded at Wounded Knee
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Ree-membering the Arikaras
Most Western history buffs are familiar with the role of the Sioux, Cheyennes and even Crows at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. But who knew about the Arikaras?