This Day in History. Today is known as Victory Day among many Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people. On this day—June 25, 1876—the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples united to overcome, defeat and ...

The romanticized story of “Custer’s Last Stand” is indelibly etched in American memory. Yet, the true story is anything but heroic. Indeed, Custer was an unlikely leader, whose ego and recklessness ...

SURVIVOR: While Kanipe may not have been in battle with Custer, he carried the general's final order. Sergeant Daniel A. Kanipe, a native of McDowell County and resident of Marion, was a member of Gen ...

Custer’s Last Stand is a staple of American history. The tragic tale of the massacre of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn is most closely associated with Gen. George Custer, ...

‘Custer’s Last Stand,’ an 1899 oil-on-canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson, depicts the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana from the point of view of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt.