Before the battle at Greasy Grass: The man at the center of it all – part 2

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 …

Before the battle at Greasy Grass: The man at the center of it all

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 …

Before the battle at Greasy Grass: Treaties signed. Treaties broken – part 3

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 …