For a little background, Little Bighorn Battlefield is located in a remote region of Southeast Montana, not too far from the Wyoming border. It’s claim to fame is that it is the site that is als ...

A battlefield in southern Montana details the fall of George Custer, the end of the American Indians’ way of life, and the crippling decline of the Park Service budget. Deep in south-central Montana, ...

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able assistance of Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian. As president, Grant tried with little success to ensure peaceful relations with ...

Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Americans have always remembered the battle. What we often forget are the difficult decisions ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Fifty years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, survivors gather in Montana. The men—including 82-year-old Brig.