Trumpet on the Land: The Aftermath of Custer's Massacre, 1876

Assistant Army Surgeon Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, nearing end of horse-meat march to the Black Hills. (Courtesy Little Bighorn Battlefield Nanonal Monument)

Posed photo of soldier shooting played-out cavalry horse in march south from Slim Buttes. (Courtesy Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.)

Miniconjou chief “American Horse” and wife. (Courtesy South Dakota Historical Society.)

Buckskin lodge captured at Slim Buttes (note Keogh’s I Company guidon recaptured). (Courtesy Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.)