From the evening of June 25, 1876, to dusk on the 26th, General Armstrong Custer and his troops engaged in battle with the Sioux and Cheyenne at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory.
As was often the case from the colonial through the expansion eras, Native Americans aligned on both sides of the battle. Although only a few Army Scouts worked with Custer, Bloody Knife was one. This photograph shows him during the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, which was organized to escort and protect the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey.
