History Talk with Don Chiswell – Custer and Crazy Horse

Warriors from two different worlds. George Armstrong Custer, the flamboyant and dashing commander of the Seventh Cavalry was to meet defeat at the hands of Crazy Horse’s Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at the Battle on the Greasy Grass – Little Bighorn – 25th June 1876.

Battle or massacre? Why does the conflict have such a hold on our imagination? What was the truth behind the legend?