The Crow scouts ride in the valley of the Little Big Horn River, perhaps to the site of Maj. Marcus A. Reno’s fight near the southern end of Sitting Bull’s village on June 25, 1876. Except along the river (to the left), the trees, underbrush and other dense growth in the image would not have been present as Reno’s battalion charged down the valley towards Sitting’s Bull’s village. It had been trampled by the huge Lakota-C


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