June 25th was the 150th anniversary of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Col. George S. Custer and 267 US soldiers were massacred by thousands of outraged Indian warriors on the plains of eastern Montana.
In 1969, as a twelve-year-old traveling to a Boy Scout Jamboree in Idaho, I visited the Custer Battlefield National Monument. I was riveted by the scene of the best-known showdown between the US Army and savages who were resisting the spread of civilization. I jotted a note from one of the plaques that the Seventh Cavalry’s “heroic defense made the nation yearn for details that no white man lived to tell.” My view of the battle was heavily shaped by They Died with Their Boots On, the 1941 Hollywood movie that featured Erroll Flynn as the heroic Custer who met a tragic fate.
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