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A plaque labeled “Reno’s Retreat” marks a spot at the Little Bighorn National Battlefield. In the background is a field of rolling green hills.

Little Bighorn

Battlefield Road is a nearly five-mile, self-guided vehicle tour that takes visitors to the spot where the first shots were fired at the Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. It’s where most of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment was surrounded by the combined forces of several Northern Plains American Indian tribes. About 7,000 Lakota, Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahos were camped in the Little Bighorn River Valley, near what is now Garryowen, Mont., when the cavalry led by Lt. Col. George Custer attacked them.

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