Reliving Custer's Last Stand at the Little Bighorn
In 1876 George Armstrong Custer - the brave, reckless and vain Civil War hero - met an ignoble end at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. And every year, re-enactors in Montana recreate the clash between the 7th Cavalry Regiment and Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Mo Rocca visits the Little Bighorn National Park, and talks with historian Nathaniel Philbrick about the soldier most remembered for his darkest hour.
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of the June 25 and 26, 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn, near Crow Agency, Montana, in the United States. It also serves as a memorial to those who fought in the battle: George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry and a combined Lakota-Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho force. Custer National Cemetery, on the battlefield, is part of the national monument. The site of a related military action led by Marcus Reno and Frederick Benteen is also part of the national monument, but is about three miles southeast of the Little Bighorn battlefield.
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The Indian Memorial Peace Through Unity sculpture at the Little Bighorn Battlefield
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is located in southern Montana just above the Wyoming border.The Battle of the Little Bighorn, often referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory and was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
The Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, realized an overwhelming victory over the U.S. Calvary. Several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, were inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake).
The U.S. Seventh Cavalry, including the Custer Battalion of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat. Five of the Seventh Cavalry's companies were annihilated with Custer, two of his brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law all killed. Including scouts, the total U.S. casualty count was 268 dead and 55 injured.
Custer's body was found near the top of Custer Hill, which also came to be known as Last Stand Hill, and is directly behind me as I recorded the Indian memorial you see here.
The National Park Service states, At least 100 American Indian men, women, and children died, too. They fought in defense of their families, land, and traditional way of life. The Indians' courageous effort, however, was never formally recognized-until now.
In 1991, the U.S. Congress changed the name of the battlefield and ordered construction of a privately funded memorial for the American Indians.
'The public interest,' according to Public Law 102-210, 'will best be served by establishing a memorial...to honor and recognize the Indians who fought to preserve their land and culture.'
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Custer Battlefield
Custer Battlefield in Crow Agency Montana as see going west on Hwy 212
Little Bighorn Battlefield
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred June 25-26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull. The U.S. 7th Cavalry, including the Custer Battalion, a force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat. Five of the 7th Cavalry's twelve companies were annihilated; Custer was killed, as were two of his brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law. The total U.S. casualty count, including scouts, was 268 dead and 55 injured.
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The Ranger Talk Contested Ground at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Garryowen, Montana
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In this interview with investigative journalist & victim of federal government overreach by the Bureau of Land Management, Chris Kortlander shares information that stuns Pete Santilli. In June of 2019, high level federal law enforcement agents in the BLM were finally held accountable for their corruption. (Coincidentally, William Woody was removed from office 10 years to the day after the untimely and wrongful death of Dr. James Redd of Blanding, Utah)
Christopher Kortlander, author of Arrow to the Heart, owns the historic town of Garryowen, Montana on the Custer Battlefield. He has been the founding director of the Custer Battlefield Museum for over 25 years, a dealer in rare and historic artifacts for over 30 years, and is a former law enforcement officer. He has received such prestigious awards as the Public Service Presidential Award from the Clinton administration in 1995, the Montana Governor’s Award for Tourism Person of the Year in 2004, and was the Personal Assistant to Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008.
The author, his town, and his personal story have been featured on such prominent television channels and news sites as: CNN, Fox News, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, BBC, The History Channel, TIME Magazine, and The Huffington Post among several others. Christopher Kortlander has also had feature stories written about him in such well-respected newspapers as: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Denver Post, New York Post, Rocky Mountain News, Malibu Times, Deseret News, Chicago Tribune, and LA Times among many others.
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Episode 686 - Chris Kortlander
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In this edition we sit down with Chris Kortlander who founded and built the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, Montana. Mr. Kortlander tells us about the history of the “Battle of Little Big Horn”, as well as share his knowledge of the different Indian tribes that existed in that period of time and how even to this day, the military officers visit to understand the mistakes that were made in those battles.
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Around Kansas - Sole Survivor of Little Big Horn - March 23, 2016
(Frank) Well, we're spending a lot of time in the West today so we're... (Deb) Works for me. (Frank) Yea. (Deb) Works for me. We just had Ron with another great poem and yea, this is all about salute Ron today. Salute! (Frank) Yea, and well also 1876 that's when was Custer's Last Stand... (Deb) It was. (Frank) ...up there in in the greasy grass. (Deb) This is the 140th anniversary this year, so a lot going on. Our good friend Jerry Russell, out in Scott City is actually doing a commemorative painting, so a lot of folks that we know are involved in marking the 140th anniversary of Little Big Horn. So, Dr. Jake was in town the other day and we went over to KU to the Natural History Museum, the Dyche Museum to visit Comanche. And the story we're going to share today is about Comanche, the survivor of Custer's unit, at the Last Stand. If you go over to KU to see Comanche, he's on the 4th floor now. He has been refurbished. (Frank) That's good. (Deb) Bless his heart. (Frank) Getting a little... (Deb) Actually Comanche died in 1891 and he was, the taxidermy was performed by Mr. Dyche. Lewis Dyche, for whom Dyche Hall is named. And he was put on display at the Columbian Exhibition in 1893, so that's where he first went on display and then he eventually came to KU where he has been at home ever since. It's just an incredible, the whole thing is incredible. We could do a story on Comanche honestly, every week and not hit all the facets. (Frank) Her office has this gigantic painting of Custer's Last Stand. So you come down the hallway... (Deb) Custer's Last Fight, that's the official name. It's the Anheuser-Busch, Custer's Last Fight and the artist who was commissioned to do that, had just done a painting on the Zulu Wars. So, it is not historically accurate, the Sioux shields are like Zulu shields, so the historic accuracy of this painting leaves much to be desired. But the imagination and the, oh my god, it's one of my favorites. One of my favorites. (Frank) So, let's see a story about Comanche. (Deb) He was a buckskin gelding, 15 hands high, with a small white star on his forehead. He was purchased in St. Louis by the 7th Cavalry in 1868 for $90 and sent to Fort Leavenworth. There, Comanche was chosen to be the personal mount of Captain Myles Keogh, commander of Company I. The handsome Irishman had served in the Army of the Pope during an uprising in Italy and had come to America in time to take part in dozens of Civil War battles including Gettysburg and the largest cavalry engagement of that war, Brandy Station. He knew horses so Comanche must have been impressive. It was Keogh's fate to die with George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 of his comrades at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. Two days later, Comanche was in a ravine badly wounded, very weak and barely able to stand. The horse suffered three severe wounds: through his neck, through his front shoulder and to his hindquarter; and four flesh wounds. Comanche was transported to Fort Lincoln aboard the steamer the Far West. A special sling and stall were built for him to recuperate. In 1878 Comanche was sent to Fort Riley, home of the 7th Cavalry, and Colonel Sturgis ordered that: “The horse known as Comanche being the only living representative of the bloody tragedy of the Little Big Horn. . .his kind treatment and comfort should be a matter of special pride and solicitude on the part of the 7th Cavalry, to the end that his life may be prolonged to the utmost limit. Though wounded and scarred, his very silence speaks in terms more eloquent than words of the desperate struggle against overwhelming odds of the hopeless conflict, and heroic manner in which all went down that day. He will not be ridden by any person whatever under any circumstances, nor will he be put to any kind of work. Hereafter upon all occasions of ceremony, Comanche, saddled, bridled, and led by a mounted trooper of Troop I, will be paraded with the regiment. When Comanche died in 1891, a farrier was by his side, feeling his pulse and looking Comanche in the eye. The farrier wrote, This night long to be remembered.
(Frank) Well we hope you enjoyed the show today. I'm Frank. (Deb) I'm Deb. (Frank) And we'll see you somewhere... (Both) Around Kansas.
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A Pictorial Presentation in Memory of the Artist, Don Griffiths
Best viewed full screen, this little video is dedicated to the memory of my brother, Don Griffiths.
Born and raised in New York City, Don Griffiths studied at William & Mary College in Virginia, the Art Center in Los Angeles, California, and California State University in Sacramento where he acquired his B.A. and M.A. degrees. As an Art director for 'Quarter Horse of the Pacific Coast' and professional illustrator for various publications, Don produced numerous magazine covers. His work has appeared in publications such as 'Field and Stream', 'Outdoor Life', 'Ducks Unlimited', 'Gun Digest', 'Western States Angus News', and 'Southwest Art' to name a few. He also did several covers for books, including Bill Groneman's Alamo Defenders and Defense of a Legend. Don also completed several CD and record album covers.
In July 1975, Don won a gold medal for 'Best of Show' at Columbia, Maryland, and in 1978 he had a one-man show at La Galerie Mouffe in Paris, France. He was named Artist of the Year for the California Wildlife Federation in 1986, Artist of the Year for the Sacramento Safari Club in 1988, and Artist of the Year for the Custer Battlefield and Historical Association (CBMHA) in 1996.
Don's work may be found in private and corporate collections throughout the world including the Sears Art Collection, Chicago, Illinois, the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, The Crazy Horse Memorial Museum in South Dakota, and the Custer Battlefield Museum, Garryowen, Montana, to name a few.
Don was proficient in oils as well as watercolors and enjoyed painting any and all subjects. Don's travels took him to many parts of the world, including Africa, where he worked on a series of wildlife and historical pieces concerning the Anglo-Zulu War of 1897. After residing in California 40 plus years, Don and his wife Terry moved to Florida where they opened a new gallery. In 2008, due to Don's untimely passing, the art gallery was closed and now Don's art is offered online.
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General Custer Statue Dedication 1910
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General Custer Statue Dedication - June 4, 1910 - Monroe, MI.
The Custer Statue dedication has been called Monroe's Greatest Day, but was also a state and national day with the attendance of President William Howard Taft.
After approval by the Michigan Legislature of $25,000 and three years of work, Edward C. Potter's sculpture, called Sighting the Enemy, depicts Custer at Gettysburg.
This photo collection revisits the event that attracted over 25,000 people to honor Monroe's famous General George Armstrong Custer and watch his wife Elizabeth Bacon Custer unveil the statue.
The Monroe County Historical Museum Archives provided these original photographs for this video. - May 2010.
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Episode #1234 - The Pete Santilli Show with Pete Santilli & Deb Jordan - Friday March 23, 2018
Guest: Christopher S. Kortlander was born in 1958. He grew up in California and later moved to Montana where in 1993 Kortlander purchased and built the historical town of Garryowen, Montana.Chris also founded and built the privately run nonprofit Custer Battlefield Museum located in Garryowen. In the Spring of 2005 vans full of armed, SWAT-geared federal agents skidded to a stop in front of the museum and the agents leaped out as they drew weapons, surrounded and stormed into the museum, and held its employees at gun point.
The agents were there to serve a warrant and collect evidence as to Mr. Kortlander’s alleged illegal sale, on eBay, of a cavalry uniform button. Mr. Kortlander said he recovered the button on private land, which is legal; however, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agent asserted that, working undercover, he sold Mr. Kortlander the button, which had a government “microdot” tag secreted on the back. A so began the decade battle with the government that led to the book Arrow To The Heart, Chris joins me tonight to talk about his life after becoming a target of the BLM —
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Around Kansas - Myles Keogh, Custer's Irish Knight - June 28, 2017
(Frank) Back again, at the end of June already. (Deb) Already and we've got so much going on. I was talking about the events at Fort Wallace. We've been working on the addition to the museum at Fort Wallace. We're getting all the artifacts together and Valerie Smith just did this incredible job designing this. Of course, Jerry Thomas did the statue of Medicine Bill Comstock, that's going to be unveiled on July 8th. All the stuff. When you start looking through the larger-than-life characters that were there, it is Custer and Sherman and all these people there, but Myles Keogh may be the most handsome man that ever served there. He was just devastatingly handsome. He was an Irishman. He had a really bit of a drinking problem there, Frankie, you know. I don't know, is it just redundant to say an Irishman had a drinking problem? Is that even a surprise to anybody? He never got married because he loved all the ladies - he loved all the ladies there, Frankie. (Frank) Oh, my. (Deb) Yes, he's one of my favorites. I'm trying to get Melissa Rau to do a sculpture of him. I'm raising the money but if you want to contribute to build a statue, a sculpture to Myles Keogh, be still mu heart. (Frank) I assume that you're doing a story about him? (Deb) Yes. Every chance I get. [Laughs] We know Myles Keogh as the Irishman who died with Custer at the Little Bighorn in 1876, leaving his horse Comanche as the only Cavalry survivor. Custer's Irish Knight they called him. Keogh was only 36 years when he was killed in service during the Indian Wars. But he was a hardened veteran by then, having served first in the armies of the Papal States, defending the Pope during a rebellion in Italy. The papal armies were defeated and Keogh was imprisoned at Genoa. After his quick release by exchange, he went to Rome and served in the Company of St. Patrick as a member of the Vatican Guard. The highly decorated soldier became bored with guard duty, however. When the Archbishop of New York came to Rome to recruit army officers, Keogh and two of his comrades joined the United States Army. He became a cavalry officer on the staff of General Buford, fighting at Brandy Station, the largest cavalry engagement of the war. Buford's nemesis was Confederate Cavalry commander, General J E B Stuart. He was promoted to captain, 7th Cavalry, on July 28, 1866 and assigned to Ft. Riley, assigned to Company I under the command of George Armstrong Custer. Keogh had sole responsibility for defending the Smoky Hill route against Indian raids from late 1866 to the summer of 1867, while commanding Fort Wallace. With unrest at every hand, a shortage of soldiers, supplies, and anything else that would make commanding a post possible, he performed admirably. He knew and/or served with almost every legendary name on the Plains. Ironically, his former enemy Stuart had also seen service in Kansas, but before the war. While serving here, Keogh retraced many steps earlier trod by Stuart. The handsome officer had a fondness for drink but also admitted to a weakness for the fair sex. He never married. Keogh is forever connected to Kansas through the legacy of his service, and his horse, preserved for posterity at KU.
CampgroundViews.com - Grandview Camp & RV Park Hardin Montana MT Campground Little Bighorn
takes user submitted videos combined with professional editing to provide tent and RV campers with a first person view of a campground or RV park. Grandview Camp & RV Park in Hardin Montana offers RV and tent camping with primitive to full hookup sites near Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. A family owned park with long and wide pull thrus and easy to access back-in RV sites (huge paved street for maneuvering). Sites are level packed gravel with grass yards. Grandview is open seasonally with ice cream socials in the evening, a small putting green, classic pool table, book exchange, rec room, and clean restrooms and showers. Sites are available for both short and long term stays. Wifi and 52 channel cable TV available at each site.
Hardin Montana is located 40 miles east of Billings MT at the intersections of Interstate 90 and MT 47. The small community is comprised of citizens that work in government, private, and agricultural enterprises. With the adjacent Crow Reservation there are abundant opportunities to learn about the storied past of native cultures in this area of the country. A popular destination is the Big Horn County Historical Museum where much of the area history is on display in a highly rated environment. 20 miles south on I-90 takes you to the famous Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument where General George Custer led his Last Stand. Also you have access to fishing along the Big Horn River (a blue ribbon river).
Located across the highway from the park is the community center with indoor pool and outdoor walking trail and ball courts. There are 3 public parks located throughout the town. Within walking distance is a Redbox, fuel station, restaurants, casino, and trading post. Music Licensed From MusicBakery.com
The Fetterman Fight 2008
This is video shot at the scene of the Fetterman Fight in 2008. Eighty US Army Infantrymen and Cavalrymen were lured to their deaths by ten Indians led by a young Crazy Horse. Hundreds of Warriors were hidden waiting for the Soldiers to arrive. The battle is often called the Fetterman Massacre. I prefer Fight, as it seems every time the Indians won it was dubbed a Massacre.
Plains Indians And US Army Battlesites
Views of the battle at the Rosebud (leading up to the Little Big Horn), Fetterman defeat, Wagon Box fight, and Fort Phil Kearny which Red Cloud caused to shut down.
YKTV: Battle of Ia Drang Valley - Army 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry
Hear veterans from the Army's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry talk about what the Vietnam Battle of Ia Drang Valley was like. We enjoyed hosting a special symposium on the Battle of Ia Drang Valley on April 17, 2015. The event was part of our ongoing commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
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