Stories

Steven Lang painting

Photo courtesy of Steven Lang

"The incident of a battle are so numerous and changing that the entire field may be regarded as an immense series of animated kaleidoscopes, the number of which is only limited by the number of observers, no two of the latter obtaining exactly the same view, and no individual probably obtaining the same view twice."

- Lt. Col. George A. Custer, "War Memoirs", Galaxy, March 1876, Pgs. 319-320

 

Army accounts

During the attack, a number of incidents occurred to, or were witnessed by the members of the army command:

• Benteen and Blue Horse
• Godfrey's Encounter
• Private J.C. Pickens' Narrative
• The Elderly Cheyenne Man
• Private Dennis Lynch Narrative: The Death of Pilan
• The Sugarloaf
• The Death of Palar
• Smith's Trooper
• The Woman in the Underbrush

 

Cheyenne accounts

During the attack, a number of incidents occurred to, or were witnessed by the members of Chief Black Kettle's village:

• Moving Behind and Corn Stalk Woman
• Mrs. Lone Wolf's Narrative
• The Narrative from Stacy Riggs' Mother
• Magpie's Narrative
• Red Bird Black's Narrative
• Wolf Belly Woman's Narrative
• Mrs. B.K. Young Bird Narrative
• Magpie's Narrative on the Death of Chief Black Kettle