Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument – Montana

NATIONAL MONUMENT

Little Bighorn Battlefield

Crow Agency, MT

This area memorializes the US Army’s 7th Cavalry and the Lakotas and Cheyennes in one of the Indian’s last armed efforts to preserve their way of life. Here on June 25 and 26 of 1876, 263 soldiers, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer and attached personnel of the US Army, died fighting several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.