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Article: Last stands at Little Bighorn. (Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana)(Western Wanderings)
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- Sunset
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- June 1, 1996
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The Montana morning promises heat. An American flag hangs at half-mast. Crickets drone. One hundred twenty years ago today, on a June afternoon also said to be hot, George Armstrong Custer and his men lay dying on this hillside overlooking the Little Bighorn River.
He troubles us, George Armstrong Custer does - he refuses to remain at rest. Today, June 25, much of southeastern Montana is marking the anniversary of the fatal battle. Here at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, a color guard from American Legion Crow Post 135 has fired its rifles, and the Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, Crow, and Sioux tribes are preparing a pipe ceremony and prayer for peace. But ...