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

True West July 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- True Western Towns: Glasgow, Montana
- Over Land and Water with John Wesley Powell
- What About Old West Waste Disposal?
- Shouldn’t right-handers hold reins in their left hands?
- The Deadly Escape
- What are “long-tailed heroes”?
- Did Billy the Kid Serve as an Interpreter for Irish Immigrants?
- What History Has Taught Me: Shelley Buffalo Calf
- C.M. Russell Rides Again
- A Collector Like No Other
- Were Davy Crockett and his men Captured and Executed in Mexico City?