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This area memorializes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their way of life.  Here in 1876, 263 soldiers and attached personnel of the U.S. Army, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer, met death at the hands of several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.

 
7th Cavalry Monument

Little Bighorn Battlefield

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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
PO Box 39
Crow Agency, MT 59022

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(406) 638-3204

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(406) 638-2623

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Photo image of a painting by William Henry Jackson called Crossing the Missouri.  

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William Henry Jackson painted this scene of emigrants crossing the Missouri River from Independence, MO. Each Spring hundreds and thousands of emigrant wagons lined up for days waiting their turn to cross over into what was wilderness in the mid-1800s on their way to a new beginning.
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Last Updated: August 23, 2007 at 12:51 EST