From the Jan. 9, 2011 Standard-Examiner "Battle of Little Bighorn resonates after 134 years" by Janet K. Keeler of the St. Ptersburg Times.
This past December 17, 2010, a frayed American flag found on a dead soldier at the Little Bighorn Battlefield brought $1.9 million at Sotheby's New York auction house.
It is a swallowtail Culbertson guidon, named after the soldier who found it and owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts for more than a hundred years.
Even after all this time, the battle, also known as Custer's Last Stand. ens of books have been written about it, along with movies, songs and paintings.
Nearly all 270 men of the 7th Cavalry died at the hands of Indians. Col. Custer, his brother Tom and many of the 7th died at what is today named Last Stand Hill.
Hardin, Montana, has a Bighorn festival every June where there is a re-enactment of the battle four times in three days. The actual battle site, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, is several miles away.
The discovery of gold in the Black Hills of what today is South Dakota skewered an uneasy peace between the Indians and whites.
One of the Big US Losses. --DaCoot
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