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| On June 25, 1876, Red Horse, a Minneconjou Lakota, rode into an unexpected battle with Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer's battalion along the Little Big Horn River... For uniformity of appearance, Custer had given each company of the 7th Calvary their own color horses. According to Indian accounts, the prominent gray horses of Company E became the easiest to follow in the confusion of battle... When Custer and his men were surrounded, they released their remaining gray horses. Stampeding through the Indian lines, the horses were captured near the river... Although no photographs exist of the famous battle, Red Horse's recollections do, rendered in brilliantly-colored drawings depicting all phases of the action...Red Horse surrendered to General Crook's troops in 1877. | |
