Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument pictures on MontanaPictures.Net (Page eleven of eleven)

50904  Looking west from the "Last Stand Area" towards the Little Big Horn river.
In 1890, Army personnel erected 252 white marble markers where the Seventh Calvary combatants fell in battle.
"Last Stand Area" granite memorial erected by the War Department in 1881.
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Public Law 102-201, signed by President George Bush on December 10, 1991, renamed the "Custer Battlefield National Monument" in Montana
as the "Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument" and called for the design and construction of a living memorial and monument to recognize the Indians who fought,
on either side, to preserve their land and culture in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25-26, 1876.