The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at
the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode
toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where
3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors
would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of
the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh
Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had
become leaders in their societies at very early ages; both had been
stripped of power, and in disgrace had worked to earn back the respect
of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the
Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their
parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an
inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the
open prairie.
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