Lt. John Grattan led 30 men to their deaths near Fort Laramie in August 1854.

U.S. Army infantry troops at Camp Custer, Michigan.

Dakota chief Little Crow led deadly attacks on white settlements in Minnesota territory in 1862.

Construction of the Transcontinental Telegraph continues through the summer of 1861.

Despite Congressional pressure, the Sioux refuse to sell their precious Black Hills.

The word is out about Custer’s Expedition discovering gold.

Thirty-five tribes are represented at the Indian Congress of 1898 in Omaha.

Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer’s mother passes away.

Harney Peak is renamed Black Elk Peak in honor of Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk.

Fire sweeps across 600 acres of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument on this date, uncovering the site where George Custer and 210 troopers met death 107 years earlier.

Author Steve Wiegand’s “1876: Year of the Gun” is published on this date in 2022.

Fearing Confederate hold-outs may team up with Mexico’s Emperor Maximilian, Gen. Philip Sheridan orders Union occupation forces to Texas, including Custer and 4,000 troops.

George Custer, center, poses with the grizzly bear he shot on Aug. 7, 1874 In the Black Hills.

The paperwork is ready and just needs Gen. Ulysses Grant’s signature to order a court-martial for George Custer.

“Buffalo Bill” Cody sends a letter to Libbie Custer with regrets for missing the unveiling of a statue honoring her husband.

Custer and the 7th Cavalry tangle with Lakota warriors, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, near present-day Miles City, MT.

Full of holes, historically, ‘Santa Fe Trail’ stars Ronald Reagan as George Custer and Errol Flynn as J.E.B. Stuart. Huh?

This date in 1874 is credited as being the day Custer’s Black Hills Expedition discovered gold. But skeptics disagreed.

George Armstrong Custer and one of the many dogs he owned during his lifetime.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum climbs the face of Mount Rushmore in 1923.