2-653-319 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'They Plunged into the Seething Mass of Painted and Befeathered Red Men', 1902. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, June 25th to 26th, 1876. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1902]