Little Bighorn Battlefield Last Stand Hill
— — the hill the white markers still hold.
Not only on a wall.
“A grass ridge above the Little Bighorn, where George Armstrong Custer and the last of his Seventh Cavalry detachment died on June 25, 1876. The white marble markers were set in 1890 where each soldier's body had fallen, scattered in clusters down the slope toward the river. Red granite markers, added much later, mark where Lakota and Cheyenne warriors fell in the same fight. The wind moves through the grass the way it did then, and the markers stay still. from the studio
Little Bighorn Battlefield Last Stand Hill, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Last Stand Hill sits within Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Big Horn County, Montana, on the Crow Reservation about fifteen miles south of Hardin. The hill rises above the east bank of the Little Bighorn River and marks the high point of the ridge where the final phase of the June 25-26, 1876 battle ended. The monument covers 765 acres along five miles of ridge, with a separate unit four miles southeast at Reno-Benteen. The site was first designated a national cemetery in 1879 and redesignated a National Monument in 1946, with the modern name adopted in 1991.
The defining feature of Last Stand Hill is the field of white marble headstones set in 1890 where each soldier of the Seventh Cavalry was found, placed by the army on the exact ground each man fell. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's marker, slightly larger and stained black, sits near the crest with those of his brothers Tom and Boston. In 1991 Congress authorized red granite markers for warriors of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho who died in the same battle; ten have been placed so far across the field as locations are confirmed. An Indian Memorial, designed by John Collins and Alison Towers and dedicated in 2003, sits a short walk from the hill.
The monument is open year-round, with the visitor center and museum open daily except major winter holidays. A 4.5-mile tour road runs along the ridge from Last Stand Hill to the Reno-Benteen Battlefield, with numbered stops at Calhoun Hill, Medicine Tail Coulee, and Weir Point. Entrance is twenty-five dollars per vehicle in 2024 and covered by the standard interagency pass. Ranger talks at Last Stand Hill run several times daily in summer. The June 25 anniversary draws the largest crowds; weekday mornings in May and September are the quietest.