BISMARCK — Mark Kellogg was an itinerant journalist and telegraph operator who followed the Northern Pacific Railway as it forged an iron path through the Dakota Territory frontier. After stints in ...

This is a tale of two survivors. One, affectionately known as Comanche, was an 8-year veteran of the U.S. military. He was ...

It was late morning on June 25, 1876. The 7th Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was about to break camp and continue to pursue Sitting Bull and his warriors.

Cook has spent most of his career on national park lands such as the Little Bighorn National Monument. He has worked at the park for five years. Heis a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine ...

Blackfoot, chief of the Mountain Crow, had plenty to trouble him on April 8, 1876, when Col. John Gibbon rode out of a wet spring blizzard and into the Crow Agency compound on the Rosebud Creek near ...

Wednesday marked the anniversary of an iconic moment of American history: Custer's Last Stand, the culmination of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's disastrous attack on a coalition of Lakota Sioux, ...

Overview -- Reno's attack orders : separation from Custer, crossing Ford A -- The Reno Court of Inquiry, part 1 -- The Reno Court of Inquiry, part 2 -- Wallace, Girard, Keogh and Cooke -- Sightings of ...

Two individual decisions sealed the fate of an army officer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Lt. George E. Lord, the chief surgeon, was the only member of the 6th Infantry assigned to accompany ...

The National Park Service has clarified that no changes have been made to Little Bighorn National Monument in the wake of the Trump Administration’s effort to amend language deemed divisive. Little ...

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able assistance of Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian. As president, Grant tried with little success to ensure peaceful relations with Native ...

A Civil War General Service cuff button was found in the dirt by a visitor at Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument in Montana, the National Park Service says. National Park Service photo A haunting bit ...