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6.1 George Armstrong Custer at the head of his 1874 Black Hills expedition |
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6.2 Custer's base camp in the Black Hills, 1874 |
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6.3 Portrait of George Armstrong Custer by Matthew Brady |
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6.4 George Armstrong Custer poses with his wife Libbie and their cook, Eliza |
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6.5 George Armstrong Custer poses with his wife Libbie and his brother Tom |
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6.6 George Armstrong Custer and his Indian scouts pose during the Black Hills expedition of 1874 |
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6.7 George Armstrong Custer poses with the first grizzly bear he had ever shot, and the men who made sure his shooting killed it |
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6.8 One of the thousands of gold miners Custer's expedition drew to the Black Hills |
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6.9 Black Hills gold miners at work on a stream |
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6.10 A Lakota camp at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in 1891 |
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6.11 Sitting Bull, holy man and chief of the Lakota people |
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6.11a Sitting Bull, leader of the Lakota people |
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6.12 Gall, a Lakota war chief who combined forces with Crazy Horse to crush Custer at the Little Bighorn |
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6.13 White Man Runs Him, one of the Crow scouts Custer relied on in the campaign that ended at the Little Bighorn |
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6.14 Pictograph by the Minniconjou chief, Red Horse, showing his recollection of the Custer fight |
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6.15 Horse skeletons mark the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn one year later |
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6.15a Chief Joseph photographed near the time he led the Wallowa Valley Nez Percé on their desperate quest for freedom |
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6.15b Chief Joseph photographed in a formal pose in the years following the Nez Percé defeat, when he had become an eloquent voice of conscience for the West |
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6.16 Chief Joseph and General John Gibbon pose together in 1889, twelve years after Joseph defeated Gibbon at the Battle of the Big Hole |
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6.17 Looking Glass, the war chief who helped Chief Joseph direct the epic Nez Percé retreat of 1877 |
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6.18 Pvt. Comfort, a typical member of the frontier army, polished and posed for posterity |
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6.19 An officers' tent somewhere on the plains, and an officer battling the typical boredom of frontier duty |
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6.20 Officers and their families play croquet at Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, in 1873 |
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6.21 The parade ground at Camp Grant, Arizona, a typical frontier outpost, in the early 1870s |
