Monthly Archives: October 2017

Repentant or depressed. Severely chastened by his recent experience in Washington, by the time he reached Minnesota after his arrest in Chicago, George Armstrong Custer gave every indication that he was a changed man when he reported to General Alfred …

Some three years after his success at Gettysburg on 28 July 1866, Custer received his commission as lieutenant colonel of the newly created 7th Cavalry Regiment which was initially headquartered at Fort Riley, Kansas. While there, he took on several …

The previous entries looked briefly at some of the broad circumstances – westward expansion by European Americans, broken treaties, and fractious relationships between some of the different tribes that lived on the plains – that led to the Great Sioux …

Those hills aren’t black. They’re gold. Before I jump ahead to an important decision that had its genesis in 1872, I’ll share a bit of my experience traversing Montana. I doubt that people who assert that Montana is a particularly …

Part one of the discussion of the treaties signed and broken ended with David Mitchell’s false assurances to the various tribes that there was no intent “to take any of your lands away…or to destroy your rights to hunt, or …