Sometimes a man or something he does captures the imagination of an entire country. He becomes a kind of national hero. George Armstrong Custer was just such a man.

Custer graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1861 and joined the Union forces in the Civil War. He became one of the most daring Cavalry Leaders in the Union Army. When the war ended, Custer was made a Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army and was sent to Kansas to fight the Indian warriors.

In 1876, the Sioux Indians were attacking the western settlements. A large United States force was sent to fight against them. Custer, with about 600 men, was sent on a scouting expedition. On June 24, 1876, he was told that Chief Sitting Bull and his Warriors were camped on the banks of the Little Big Horn River in Montana. Only a few hundred Warriors were reported to Gen. Custer by his Scouts, but the number of Warriors in Sitting Bull's Camp exceeded 2,500.

Custer divided his unit into 3 parts; one was under the command of Major Reno, one under Captain Benteen, and the last under Custer’s command. Custer had no idea he was so greatly outnumbered. The losses will linger forever. There are markers were the Soldiers fell dead. The spirits of the Indians who died that day still remain along the countryside.

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Take a trip back in time, watch this authentic battle and listen to the story as it is played out by as many as 300 Cavalry riders and Indians. The Reenactment script is based on Crow Tribal Historian, Dr. Joe Medicine Crow’s translation of oral and written Native American stories. Medicine Crow was awarded Montana’s Tourism person of the year.