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  • Custer's ride revisited by local reenactor [Battle of the Little Bighorn]

    06/22/2008 4:13:09 AM PDT · by johnny7 · 35 replies · 146+ views
    Monroe News ^ | June 21. 2008 | by Ronda Stiffler
    Custer reenactor Steve Alexander rides the trail that Gen. Custer rode as part of the celebration. On June 25, 1876, a force of 200 U.S. soldiers under Gen. George Armstrong Custer is wiped out by the Sioux Indians at Little Big Horn, Montana. - Photo courtesy of Sandy Alexander In 1876, General George Custer led the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army on a fateful journey across four hundred miles of prairie in thirty nine days. Today, Monroe resident and Custer reenactor Steve Alexander begins recreating Custer's last ride, leading troops of the Frontier Army of Dakotas and...