LITTLE BIGHORN 1876 — How 210 Men Vanished in Under an Hour

Thanks for stopping by Shots Fired West — if you love true crime tales from the Wild frontier, hit subscribe so you don't miss the next outlaw story. LITTLE BIGHORN 1876: The Hour That Swallowed Custer's Command On a June afternoon in 1876, five companies of the Seventh Cavalry rode onto the ridges above the Little Bighorn River and were never seen alive again. This is the real story behind that hour. It runs from a blacksmith's son in Ohio to a gold strike in the Black Hills, a broken treaty, and the largest village the northern plains had ever seen. It's told through the written record, the battlefield archaeology, and the Lakota and Cheyenne accounts. Sources and further reading: Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2010) Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn (1984) Robert M. Utley, Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier (1988) Robert M. Utley, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull (1993) T. J. Stiles, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (2015) Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox Jr., Melissa A. Connor, and Dick Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1989) Richard Allan Fox Jr., Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle (1993) Gregory F. Michno, Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat (1997) Edward Lazarus, Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present (1991) Elizabeth B. Custer, Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer (1885) This video is made for educational and informational purposes. Our goal is to widen your knowledge of the American frontier and give you content of real value, grounded in the historical record. Every script is written by a human, and the visuals and storyboard are brainstormed internally by our team.