Lone Tipi

Lone Tipi

June 25, 1876

Lone Tipi

June 25, 1876
📍 Crow Agency, Big Horn County🧭 45.52201, -107.37835
Military & Wars

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Advancing down Reno Creek, Custer pauses at a tipi located behind this ridge. The tipi contains the remains of a Sans Arc warrior killed a week before at the Battle of the Rosebud. Indians flee toward the village, prompting Custer to order Reno's battalion to continue down the creek and attack. Custer's five companies separate, and pass near here after observing 60-75 mounted warriors on these bluffs. While Custer's motives are not known, he may have intended to strike the village downstream.

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