On this date 142 years ago, America began creating the Custer myth, much of which survives today

On June 25, 1876, the Custer myth got its start as Sioux (Lakota), Cheyenne (Tsitsistas), and Arapaho warriors defended themselves and their families against the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry in Medicine Tail Coulee and the surrounding area on the Greasy Grass River (Little Big Horn) in Montana Territory.