Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about George Custer’s ...

BILLINGS - A group of Northern Cheyenne storytellers gathered here Friday night to give for the first time an oral account of the killing of Lt. Col. George Custer and the defeat of the 7th U.S.

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...

Custer charged with the 7th Cavalry into Black Kettle’s encampment at dawn on Nov. 27, 1868, almost four years to the day after the Sand Creek massacre. The exact number of Cheyenne people killed ...

As the sun rose on a cold morning in 1868, hundreds of U.S. soldiers, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, attacked Cheyenne families camped for the winter along the Washita River. Stories passed ...

The exact number of Cheyenne people killed remains unknown. Custer believed it to be more than 100, while survivors thought the number was lower. An estimated 21 soldiers also were killed in later ...