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7. Using distractions Between June 25 and 26, 1876, a combined force of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne led the United States 7th Cavalry into a battle near the Little Bighorn River with what was then the eastern side of the Montana Territory. The engagement is known by a few names: the Battle of Greasy Grass, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Custer's Last Stand. Perhaps the most famous action in the Indian Wars, it had been a remarkable victory for Sitting Bull and the forces. They defeated a column of 900 men led by George Armstrong Custer; five of the Seventh's companies were annihilated and Custer himself was killed inside engagement as well as 2 of his brothers as well as a brother-in-law. Known as the battle that left no white survivors, Little Big Horn has inspired more than 1,000 works of art, including over 40 films. Here are four of the best... To make a social world before photography, we'd have to make a world without picture IDs; without portraits of ordinary people; one without pictures as souvenirs of travel; one without celebrity pictures; one without advertising photographs; one without X-rays or views of outer space; your global without views of foreign and exotic peoples; one without pictures of sports, wars, and disasters; and something in which the great many people had no way to visually record the important events with their lives. '10 February. The Peregrine flew north across the valley. He was half miles away, but I could see the brown and black of his wings, the shining gold of his back. The pale cream of his tail coverts looked like a band of straw twisted across the base of his tail. Thinking he'd return downwind, I went into fields with the river to watch for him. I stood in the lee of the hawthorn hedge, looking through it on the north, sheltered in the bitter wind'