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Supplying Custer : the Powder River Supply Depot, 1876

The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the best-known events in the history of the American West. Questions surrounding Custer's fate have been discussed and researched at length, but details about the transportation and logistics of military supplies have not been thoroughly investigated. Archaeologist Gerald Clark stumbled upon the remnants of a supply depot while surveying the area near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Powder Rivers. It turned out to have been established by General Terry during the Sioux War and utilized by Custer and one wing of the 7th Calvary. The book details the items recovered archaeologically, including ale and soda bottles, cartridges, packing crates, a horseshoe, and a ceramic doll. It also addresses the army's knowledge of this area and the ways the supply depot fit into the broader military campaign. This book connects archaeology and history to explore how the American military planned, manoeuvred, and operated on the northern plains from the end of the Civil War through 1876.

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Centennial campaign : the Sioux War of 1876

The Great Sioux War : the best from Montana, the magazine of western history

It was the greatest of all Indian wars and it involved far more than the annihilation of George Armstrong Custer's command on a summer's day in 1876. The Great Sioux War of 1876-77 was a confrontation of two flowering cultures. It involved not one, but more than a dozen battles, played out over the vast landscape of the northern plains. The stakes were high - gold in the Black Hills, rights to the great Yellowstone Basin, and two ways of life. For the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples it was, as Black Elk later put it, "all our own country, " and they defended it fiercely against the army columns of Gibbon, Crook, Terry, Miles and Custer and against the railroads, town builders, cattlemen, and gold seekers. The Great Sioux War has reverberated in the destinies and the imaginations of the two cultures down to the present day. This collection brings together 15 classic articles - many now difficult to obtain - on the Great Sioux War. All originally appeared in "Montana: The Magazine of Western History", which has for more than 40 years distinguished itself with its publications on the subject. From prelude to aftermath, highlights to sidelights, the war is discussed here by leading scholars of the subject - Robert M.Utley, Paul Andrew Hutton, Brian W.Dippie, Paul L.Hedren, Edgar I.Stewart, Robert G.Athearn, Mark H. Brown, Don Rickey, Jr., Peter J.Powell, William E.Lass, Harry H.Anderson, Michael P.Malone, Richard B.Roeder, Rex C.Myers, Thomas R.Buecker, and Minnie Dubbs Millbrook.