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Dull Knife Battle – 135th Anniversary

November 27, 2011

On November 25, 1876, Colonel Ranald MacKenzie, in command of the Fourth Cavalry, led troops of about 1100 men into the east end of Red Fork Valley for the purpose of destroying the Dull Knife band of Northern Cheyenne.  The Red Fork of the Powder River was a favored winter camping spot for the Cheyenne, [...]

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Indian Memorial Little Bighorn Battlefield

October 7, 2011

Vicki and I have visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield many times – and in many weathers.  On this particular visit the sky was stormy and the wind just kept picking up. We walked across the street from Last Stand Hill and the Cavalry Monument (an obelisk up the hill from the Visitor’s Center) over to [...]

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Little Big Horn Battlefield

December 2, 2008

In the spring and summer of 1876 the United States Government launched a military campaign upon a portion of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who refused to live within the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation. They chose to continue their traditional nomadic way of life. The campaign was initiated when a Government ultimatum to [...]

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