Remembering the Little Big Horn battle

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today another anniversary - the bloody battle of Little Big Horn or Greasy Grass - victory of the rebellious Lakota and their Cheyenne allies, with some sprinkling of Arapahoes etc, against the US Army - 7th US Cavalry and their Crow allies.

Chief Gall - one of the architects of this Plains Indian victory of the US Cavalry.

Oglala principal war leader or blotahunka Crazy Horse leading and fighting - showing the way 

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Pacem Aeternam 

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Edgar S. Paxson - Wild West brushes & pencils of Montana

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a little Wild West frontier art done by a real pioneer 

and soldier.

mural art from the Montana Capitol 

Lewis and Clark 

Death of John Bozeman of the Bozeman Trail

Native of New York, American painter Samuel Edgar Paxson (1852-1919) was a Montana pioneer, adventurer, settler, and US soldier during the brutal US war in the Philippines, was a survivor and injured in process of the Army naval transport ship wrecking outside Japan  - here his short biography from the Montana Historical Society or University of Montana site. 

chief Joseph of Nez Perce surrender

explorer Pierre de la Verendrye

Both Montana genre and historical artists  Edgar  Paxson and Charlie Russell were friends during their lives, apparently lifetime friends, and Russell eulogized Paxson's  untimely passing. 

Custer's defeat and Lakota victory - Little Big Horn battle

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