Wolf Mountain Moon: The Battle of the Butte, 1877

George Armstrong Custer, in one of

the last portraits made of him in April, 1876.

(courtesy of Custer Battlefield National Monument)

John “Liver-Eating” Johnston.

(Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Section)

Luther S. “Yellowstone” Kelly.

(Courtesy Denver Public Library, Western History Section)

Colonel Nelson A. Miles and officers of the Fifth Infantry, December 29, 1876. From left: Lt. O.F. Long, Surgeon H.R. Tilton, Lt. J.W. Pope, Col. N.A. Miles, Lt. F.D. Baldwin, Lt. C.E. Hargous, and Lt. H.K. Bailey.

(Courtesy Montana Historical Society)

Wooden Leg’s drawing of his rescue of Big Crow.

(Courtesy Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument)

Fifth Infantry soldiers at Tongue River Cantonment in winter dress.

(Courtesy Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument)