Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Dakota Territory for the first time on Sept. 8, 1883. It started a love affair with the ‘rough and rugged’ Badlands.

Ely S. Parker of the Seneca Iriquois tribe was the first Native American to serve in a U.S. president’s administration.

Lakota war leader Crazy Horse is killed on Sept. 5, 1877, at Fort Robinson in present-day Nebraska.

Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, wounded while fighting for the Union during the Civil War, was known among Indians as “Bad Hand.”

Governor of New Mexico Juan Bautista de Anza clashed with Comanche chief Cuerno Verde north of present-day Pueblo, Colorado.

The Battle of Ash Hollow in Nebraska, Sept. 2-3, 1855, was labeled a massacre by The New York Times.

‘Following the Guidon’ was Elizabeth Custer’s third of four books about life with her husband, George Armstrong Custer.

Fort Meade is established in Dakota Territory on Aug. 31, 1878.

Custer’s Black Hills Expedition force returned home to Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory on Aug. 30, 1874.

Union Maj. General Grenville Dodge leant his name to one of the West’s most-famous cities.

Learn how a statement credited to General Philip Sheridan came about.

Fort Ellis opens on Aug. 27, 1867, in Montana Territory to protect emigrants heading to the Gallatin Valley.

Miniconjou chief Big Foot and 300 of his people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers at the Wounded Knee Massacre in December 1890.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee came out in 1971 and “took a sledgehammer to the narrative of how the American West was won.”

One of George Custer’s harshest critics, Frederick Benteen, is born on this date in 1834 in Petersburg, Virginia.

Catholic missionary Father De Smet may have fueled gold fever among prospectors with the tale of a gold mountain in the Black Hills.

Wiliam T. Sherman’s promotion in 1866 to Lieutenant General gave him control of all U.S. Army troops west of the Mississippi River.

Frederick Benteen, who served under Custer at Little Bighorn, takes command this week in 1886 of Fort Duchesne in Utah Territory.

Responsibility for Indian trade relations was transfered to Secretary of War Henry Knox on Aug. 20, 1789.