While the Terry / Gibbon column was marching toward the mouth of the Little Bighorn, on the evening of June 24, Custer's scouts arrived at an overlook known as the Crow's Nest, east of the Little Bighorn River.

At sunrise on June 25, Custer's scouts reported they could see a massive pony herd and signs of the Native American village roughly in the distance.

Custer's scouts warned him about the size of the village, with scout Mitch Bouyer reportedly saying, " General, I have been with these Indians for 30 years, and this is the largest village I have ever heard of.

On June 25, some of Custer's Crow Indian scouts identified what they claimed was a large Indian encampment along the Little Bighorn River.

The character of Jack Crabb is partially based on Curley, one of Custer's Native American scouts from the Crow tribe.

Some scouts from his camp apparently found some food left behind by Custer's attack force, and were observed by U. S. military scouts.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

However, several other officers of the Seventh, including William Cooke and Tom Custer, were also dressed in buckskin on the day of the battle, and the fact that each of the non-mutilation wounds to Custer's body ( a bullet wound below the heart and a shot to the left temple ) would have been instantly fatal casts doubt on his being wounded or killed at the ford, more than a mile from where his body was found.

Custer's Revenge ( also known as Westward Ho and The White Man Came ) is a controversial video game made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique, a company that produced a number of adult video game titles for the system.

Hazen also engaged in controversy by criticizing George Armstrong Custer's book Life on the Plains in one of his own books.

The Battle of the Wabash, also known as St. Claire's Defeat, was the greatest loss the U. S. Army suffered against the Indians-far more so than Custer's Last Stand.

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.

Captain Benteen and other troops also headed towards Weir's position but then when the warriors, having destroyed Custer's command, returned to confront them, all the cavalry retreated back to Reno's original position on the bluffs, still not knowing what happened to Custer.

These games also included re-worked versions with female protagonists, Philly Flasher ( Beat ' Em & Eat ' Em ), Bachelorette Party ( Bachelor Party ), and General Retreat ( Custer's Revenge ).

The Horsemeat March of 1876, also known as the Starvation March, was a military expedition led by General George Crook in pursuit of a band of Sioux fleeing General Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

General Sherman asked the new Secretary of War, Alphonso Taft, to write a letter requesting Custer's release so Custer could take command of the Fort Lincoln expedition against the Lakota.

Custer and all the men with him were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, fighting against a coalition of Native American tribes in a battle that has come to be popularly known in American history as " Custer's Last Stand ".

Ordinarily, Custer's low class rank would be a ticket to an obscure posting, but Custer had the fortune to graduate just as the Civil War broke out.

Custer's style of battle was often claimed to be reckless or foolhardy, but military planning was always the basis of every Custer " dash ".

As a result, the Battle of the Little Bighorn has come to be popularly known as " Custer's Last Stand ".

Perhaps the most famous person to be buried in Coulsons Boothill cemetery is Muggins Taylor, the scout who carried the news of Custer's Last Stand to the world.

Originally known as Reno Junction ( descendants of Major Reno from Custer's troop resided in the area ), the town was renamed " Wright " after the owner of the Long Branch Bar, Dale Wright, who agreed to sell land to Atlantic Richfield Corporation, the developer of the Black Thunder Mine, who planned to build the town to accommodate the work force that would be hired to operate the mine.

He was interviewed many times, with some writers claiming him to be the only surviving witness from the U. S. side of Custer's Last Stand.

Though originally buried on the battlefield, Autie Reed's and Boston Custer's remains were exhumed, the only exceptions to the rule that only commissioned officers would be shipped home for reburial.

Gen. Alfred Terry's column, including twelve companies ( A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, and M ) of the 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's immediate command, Companies C and G of the 17th U. S. Infantry, and the Gatling gun detachment of the 20th Infantry departed westward from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory on May 17.

According to late 20th century research, Custer's ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, who followed the first thirteen immigrant German families from Krefeld and surroundings, had emigrated to North America around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatine refugees whose passage was arranged by the English government of Queen Anne to gain settlers.

Custer's tenure at the Academy had been rocky, as he came close to expulsion in each of his three years due to excessive demerits, many from pulling pranks on fellow cadets.

According to Grinnell's account, based on the testimony of the Cheyenne warriors who survived the fight, at least part of Custer's command attempted to ford the river at the north end of the camp but were driven off by stiff resistance from Indian sharpshooters firing from the brush along the west bank of the river.

A contrasting version of Custer's death is suggested by the testimony of an Oglala named Joseph White Cow Bull, according to novelist and Custer biographer Evan Connell, who relates that Joseph White Bull stated he had shot a rider at the riverside wearing a buckskin jacket and big hat when the soldiers first approached the village from the east.

During the 1920s, two elderly Cheyenne women spoke briefly with oral historians about their having recognized Custer's body on the battlefield, and had stopped a Sioux warrior from desecrating the body.

Later, General George Armstrong Custer's command was encamped at Fort Cobb from Dec. 18, 1868, to Jan. 6, 1869.

The campaign proved inconclusive but resulted in Custer's court martial and suspension from the Army for one year — in part — for returning to Fort Riley to see his wife without permission.

Custer's men raided the camp under fire from Confederate forces commanded by Capt.

During the retreat of the Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg, Custer's men maintained a series of skirmishes and encounters with the Confederate rear guard, fighting another battle at Falling Waters as the last of Robert E. Lee's army slipped across the Potomac River.

Between November 8 and 10, the Nez Perce left Fort Buford for Custer's post command at the time of his death ; Fort Abraham Lincoln across the Missouri River from Bismark in the Dakota Territory.

The reported massacre of Custer's force terrified the Kingsley family, but they were relieved to learn that bad weather had kept Dr. Kingsley from joining Custer.

It was widely rumored that Rain-in-the-Face, who had escaped from captivity and was a participant at the Little Bighorn, cut out Tom Custer's heart after the battle ; though the chief later denied it during an interview.

Finally, Custer's brigade attacked through difficult terrain, ousting Hampton's men from their position.

Curly evidently watched the battle from a distance, and, seeing Custer's defeat was imminent, rode off to report the news.

Officers of Reno's command, who, late in the afternoon, from high points, surveyed the country in anxious expectation of Custer's appearance, and commanded a view of the field where he had fought, say that no fighting was going on at that time, between 5 and 6 o ' clock.

Grant received leave to travel from Custer's unit in the Black Hills of South Dakota to Washington, D. C. for her birth.