Brig. General George A. Custer catches a fragment from a Confederate artillery shell in the foot at the Battle of Culpeper Courthouse on Sept. 13, 1863.

Judge Daniel Stanton Bacon and Eleanor Sophia Page are married on Sept. 12, 1837. They eventually become in-laws of George Armstrong Custer.

The New York Times this week publishes ‘Fire May Unveil Mysteries of Custer,’ a look at the archaeological exploration of the Battle of Little Bighorn battlefield following a massive grass fire.

How about Austin Butler in the role of George Armstrong Custer? Big box office!

Anson Mills led troopers from the 3rd U.S. Cavalry in the Battle of Slim Buttes on Sept. 9, 1876, the first victory against Plains Indians following the Little Bighorn massacre in June.

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.”