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The Battle of the Little Bighorn is still discussed today, as few know exactly what happened, and even those who were there perhaps in a few years had their memories grow dim. One of the reputed only survivors of the US Army at the Custer Battle was Custer’s Crow scout, Curley. Some accounts, inc

(WHTM) By the 1920s doctors in the United States and across the world realized that deaths due to lung cancer, which was virtually unknown in the 1800s, were skyrocketing. But why? Epidemiologists studied possible causes, including industrial pollution, street paving materials (asphalt was a prime suspect), and chemicals used in World War I. Also suspected, […]

People in the region are willing to take time for self-reflection, support and tolerance of differences.

The ferocious Battle of the Little Big Horn has been ennobled as Custer’s Last Stand, but in truth, Custer and his men never stood a fighting chance.

Snow is a common occurrence in North Dakota, but not in June! That’s what the Seventh Cavalry endured for two cold, wet days, stuck in camp in the Badlands, while marching west from Fort Abraham Lincoln. The expedition was headed into Montana Territory, where Plains Indians would later defeat Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men at the Battle of Greasy Grass, or Little Bighorn.

Alfred Howe Terry was born into a prosperous Connecticut family on this date in 1827. He graduated from Yale with a law degree and worked for a Connecticut Superior Court.

A replica of the steamship, The Far West, on display at The Museum of the Upper Missouri, Fort Benton, MT During the early and mid-1800s, steamboats cruised up the Missouri, into the Yellowstone, Big Horn, Tongue River and the northern Powder River. Steamboats brought supplies to the army that wa

6/17/2009: It was in the late spring of 1867 that General Terry discovered the perfect site from which to protect the overland trail connecting the stream of settlers from Minnesota to Montana. On a little hillock, named Bear's Den, which overlooked the Sheyenne River in the southeast corner of present day North Dakota, Terry established Fort Ransom; naming it in honor of brevet Major General Thomas E.G. Ransom of the U.S. Volunteers.

11/10/2005: Alfred Howe Terry was born into a prosperous Connecticut family on this date in 1827. After graduating from Yale with a law degree, Terry worked for a Connecticut Superior Court.

The every-four-year Micronesian Games have been postponed due to ongoing uncertainty about Covid and restricted travel in the region.