Steamboat At The Little Big Horn (The agile mountain steamboat’s role in the 1876 Indian Wars Campaign)
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The defeat of LTC George Armstrong Custer’s famed 7th Cavalry by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians on 25 June 1876 was the most memorable event of a larger U.S. Army campaign that began in May and concluded in late August of that year.