"Artifacts of the Battle of Little Big Horn: Custer,..." Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Dec 2016 4:16 p.m. PST |
… the 7th Cavalry & the Lakota and Cheyenne Warriors by Will Hutchison (Schiffer, 2016). "This book is a first-of-a-kind comprehensive, photographic essay regarding surviving artefacts of Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn some never before published. Years were spent photographing and acquiring artefacts in museums and private collections, which are presented here in vivid, high-resolution colour photographs, shot from various angles with the researcher and collector in mind. The photographs are catalogued under chapters devoted to the battle, Custer's 7th Cavalry, and the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who fought them. Hundreds of photographic images accompanying the chapters are filled with informative descriptions regarding physical properties, history, origin of the items, and the stories behind them."
Main page link Have any of our fellow members visited Little Big Horn and found some rest or artifact from the Battle? Amicalement Armand
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John Leahy | 01 Dec 2016 5:37 p.m. PST |
GarryOwen can tell you everything you want to know about Custer or the LBH. He was head of the LBH association, if I have the name correct. He knows his stuff! |
Saber6 | 01 Dec 2016 6:19 p.m. PST |
I'm roughly 60 miles south of the site. I know a docent and have been on more than the "regular" tour. Fascinating site, not much changed in 100 years |
Grelber | 02 Dec 2016 9:11 a.m. PST |
I visited the Petersburg, Virginia battlefield in 1997, and they had an arrow from the Little Bighorn. One of the men with Terry's column was from the Petersburg area and had picked it up on the battlefield. He ended up leaving it to his hometown when he died, years later. In 1997, Petersburg was making plans to have it shipped west to join the collection of arrows on display at the Little Bighorn. When I visited LBH a few years later and asked bout it, I got blank stares. Kind of sad--it had a unique history, and is now a generic, anonymous arrow. Grelber |
Garryowen | 02 Dec 2016 9:50 a.m. PST |
Lots and lots of artifacts have been found on private property surrounding the Park Service land. The Park Service only owns part of the land where the fighting took place. Slugs, cartridge cases (in the hundreds if not thousands), metallic parts of horse equipment and soldier equipment have been found including cavalry and Indian firearms. Jason Pitsch of Garryowen Montana found lots on his family ranch land where Reno's valley fight took place. I did very, very little metal detecting there. I never even owned a metal detector, but found a few cases when I was with someonel else using their equipment for a few mintues. Back in the 70s and 80s there was lots of metal detecting being done there. Besides Jason (who operated a museum at the valley fight site), Henry Weibert amassed a lot of artifacts. He wrote a book on the battle and his life on Reno Creek, Sixty Six Years in Custer's Shadow. This incorporated his findings as evidence for routes taken and positions held. Hank discovered more than one Indian position that was unknown until his work. All of this was done outside NPS boundaries. Later Hank's son, Don Weibert, did a magnificent book on his father's artifacts called Custer, Cases and Cartridges. It has photos from the trooper and Indian positions he found, looking toward the direction of fire. Then there are photos looking back toward the trooper and Indian positions from the target area. A number of excellent aerial photographs locate these numbered positions. There is lots of text discussing what happened where things were found and why and how both sides did what they did on the individual trooper/warrior level. I was pretty active at the Battlefield in those days and knew all of the guys who were doing this work. It was quite exciting. Unfortunately, today most people with an interest in the battle don't even know who Weibert was and Pitcsh is. All they know is the latest popular history book written by a guy who knew no more about the battle than I know about the Crusades, until he started on his book. This subject is so complex with such a wealth of contradictory material available, that those books are always disappointing. It takes years of study to know the details of this fight and to have any hope (never a guarantee) of separating fact from fiction. This book that Tango mentions is a nice book. Lots of interesting photographs of items. I would like to have seen more Indain items. However, few of those exist today, other than fired cartridge cases and how many of those do you want to look at? Tom |
Tango01 | 02 Dec 2016 10:24 a.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 02 Dec 2016 10:30 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the good info boys!. (smile). Amicalement Armand
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