IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward ...

Today is Saturday, June 25, the 176th day of 2022. There are 189 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped ...

This Day in History. Today is known as Victory Day among many Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people. On this day—June 25, 1876—the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples united to overcome, defeat and ...

The father of farming in Burleigh County, N.D., was a former U.S. congressman, rose to the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War, and, as the oldest officer of the 7th Cavalry, served at Col.

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This is part one of a serialization from "Sweeping Across America; Broome County Citizens in American History," by this writer. His hope and dreams for a bright future were led down the path toward ...

The one officer of the 7th Cavalry who was most like Col. George Custer was also the officer most contemptuous of Custer. The majority of the adjectives and phrases that I found describing Frederick ...

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

Americans were in shock in early July 1876. It wasn’t supposed to have been that way. It was the country’s centennial, after all, a time for a national party. Instead, stunning news came from the ...

WHAT: In a “Legends of the West” auction early this month at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, many items from the Plains Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn were included. The encounter with mainly ...