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December 7, 1886: The site was proclaimed National Cemetery of Custer's Battlefield Reservation to include burials of other campaigns and wars. The name has been shortened to "Custer National Cemetery." November 5, 1887: Battle of Crow Agency, three miles north of Custer battlefield; April 14, 1926: Reno-Benteen Battlefield was added
Custer's route over battlefield, as theorized by Curtis. (Credit: Northwestern University Library Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian, 2003). 1:5260 of Custer battlefield – surveyed 1891, detailing U.S. soldiers' body locations
The Custer Military Trail Historic Archeological District is a national historic district consisting of 18,149 acres (7,345 ha) located in Billings and Golden Valley Counties in North Dakota. The district includes five historic sites associated with the Plains Indian War from 1864 to 1876.
Garryowen is a private town in Big Horn County, Montana, United States.It is located at the southernmost edge of the land where Sitting Bull's camp was sited just prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the opening gunshots of the battle were fired only a few hundred yards from where Garryowen's structures stand today.
Fort Custer was established during the Indian wars in the Department of Dakota by the U.S. Army to subjugate the Sioux, Cheyenne and Crow Indians near present-day Hardin, Montana. The post was named for General George Armstrong Custer who died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn .
Custer is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. The population was 145 at the 2000 census . This community bears the name of U.S. Army General George Armstrong Custer who was defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn , which took place nearby in 1876.
South Dakota Highway 115 (SD 115) is a 40-mile (64 km) state highway in Lincoln and Minnehaha counties in South Dakota, United States, that was created from the routing of US 77, "Old 77", when its alignment was moved west to become Interstate 29 around 1980 and SD 15's route from US 18 to Sioux Falls.
Map with the battlefield of Pease Bottom (1873), Montana, and relevant Indian territories. The site of the battlefield had been U.S. territory for five years. The conflict between the United States and the buffalo seeking Lakotas was a collision between two growing empires. [ 11 ]