The 1876 Yellowstone Expedition: Catastrophe at the Little Bighorn (Annotated)

Step onto the windswept Montana battlefield in the summer of 1876, when the fate of the frontier was written in blood.

Originally published in 1877, this rare firsthand account by General John Gibbon captures the immediate aftermath of one of the most infamous clashes in American history: the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Gibbon was not a distant historian—he arrived with General Alfred Terry's relief column just two days after Custer's 7th Cavalry was annihilated. What he found was a scene ...