Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question
has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because
half of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry - the men with
Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen - survived the
fight, but what of the half that did not, the troopers, civilians,
scouts, and journalist who were with Custer?
Now, because a grass fire in August 1983 cleared the terrain of
brush and grass and made possible thorough archaeological
examinations of the battlefield in 1984 and 1985, we have many
answers to important questions.
On the basis of the archaeological evidence presented in this
book, we know more about what kinds of weapons were used against
the cavalry. We know exactly where many of the men fought, how they
died, and what happened to their bodies at the time of or after
death. We know how the troopers were deployed, what kind of
clothing they wore, what kind of equipment they had, how they
fought. Through the techniques of historical archaeology and
forensic anthropology, the remains and grave of one of Custer's
scouts, Mitch Boyer, have been identified. And through
geomorphology and the process of elimination, we know with almost
100 percent certainty where the twenty-eight missing men who
supposedly were buried en masse in Deep Ravine will be found.
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