Rapid City photographer's picture resonates 63 years later

06/27/11 With one quick click Bill Groethe captured history when he photographed the nine remaining Native American survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn on Sept. 2, 1948.

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Bruce's History Lessons - Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn

06/27/11 The battle fought on June 25 in 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana, pitted Lt. Col. George Custer and 210 members of the Seventh Cavalry against a far larger force of Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians commanded by the great Lakota chief, Sitting Bull. When the Battle of Little Bighorn was over, Custer and all of his men were dead, yet from their death sprang to life one of ...

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Commander learns valuable lessons in Iraq

07/11/11 Capt. Noah Siple (left), commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, 77th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, and a Caldwell, Idaho native, praises the performance of A Co. Soldiers, Spc. Benjamin Lee, a gunner and a native of Eugene, Ore.; Pfc. Zachary Holmes, a driver and a native of Oregon City, Ore.; and Pfc. Tyler Clark, also a driver and a ...

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