Arapahos

On June 25, 1876, every soldier in the 7th Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer carried a single action Colt .45 as they advanced on the thousands of Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne camped on the Greasy Grass (Little Bi

Forged in the furnace of the Civil War, the 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry fought the same warrior tribes as the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, with victories and defeats and a record that was sometimes reputable and so

In 1851 at a council meeting on Horse Creek, down the North Platte River from the U.S. Army garrison at Fort Laramie, the influential Minneconjou Lakota Chief Lone Horn and other tribal leaders accepted in concept a peace between all peoples in the r

Massacres on the American frontier were disgracefully commonplace. In the perhaps inevitable clash over land, whites and Indians slaughtered one another from the nation’s earliest days. Whites were the aggressors in several notable instances, from th

GEOQUIZ: In which state was the Battle of the Little Bighorn fought? Answer: Montana. Also known as Custer's Last Stand, the battle was fought June 25-26, 1876, near the present-day Crow Agency. Visit Chicago Tribune at www.chicagotribune.com