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Mark Kellogg was a Bismarck Daily Tribune reporter who accompanied the 7th Cavalry in 1876. In fact, he rode out with Custer on his final mission June 22. Some confusion seems to prevail regarding...
History often connects through intriguing coincidence. Several such occurrences connect the 1866 Fetterman Fight with the Little Bighorn. The annihilation of an entire force is one. An impetuous cavalry commander could be another. A...
The morning of June 25th, 1876, Lt. Colonel Custer directed his officers to report as soon as each had ensured his company was ready to proceed. Lt. Edward Godfrey complained in his journal that...
On March 17, 1876 a Cheyenne winter camp suffered a surprise dawn attack by troops under General George Crook. Crook led the Wyoming Column, one of three army contingents sent forth by General Phil...
Many have read casually about the Little Bighorn and related events. Most have likely confused Fred Girard and Frank Gruard. Although their names bear only small similarities, the two performed similar roles and services...
One can hardly mention Marcus Reno without also discussing Captain Frederick W. Benteen. Both served under Custer, and both detested him in similar ways. Not that they necessarily like each other, either. Benteen once...
Born in 1834, Marcus A. Reno entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1851. He would go on to earn several brevets in America’s Civil War. However, he would always be overshadowed...
Both cavalryman W.O. Taylor and Custer authority W. A. Graham reprinted a New York Herald article relayed from Bismarck on July 7, 1876. The following is an excerpt from that article as relayed by...
Curley: Credible Crow Scout or Discredited Raconteur? On April 9, 1876, Colonel John Gibbon’s Montana Column arrived at the Crow Indian Agency along the Bighorn River. He was there to enlist scouts to help...
Like several other prominent players at the Little Bighorn, Mitch Bouyer was born in the late 1830’s – most likely 1837. His father, John Baptiste Bouyer, was French. His mother was a Santee Sioux....
