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...tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
...Last Stand," in which Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry met their death in a fierce battle with Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on June 25, 1876. Last week Congress approved a bill to rename the park the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The bill would also create an Indian memorial there, in recognition that Native Americans too fought and died in the clash, which was their last major victory against the U.S. Army...
...Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell (1984). The author, one of America's most underappreciated novelists (Mrs. Bridge, 1959; Mr. Bridge, 1969), uses his imaginative skills to re-create the historical George Armstrong Custer and his foolhardy last stand. An unconventional retelling of the familiar legend that broke new ground in the organization and narration of the history of the Old West...
...throw out the charges against their client, who faces a possible 15-year prison sentence. For Deaver, says Philip Lacovara, former counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, the court's decision is like the "arrival of the 7th Cavalry." But Custer's 7th Cavalry was wiped out at Little Bighorn, and whether Deaver will get to ride off in freedom remains to be seen: the Supreme Court is likely to review the ruling this term...
Last week, 110 years after Lieut. Colonel George Custer made his infamous last stand, Plains Indians and the 7th Cavalry Regiment met again at Little Bighorn. Their purpose: to rebury the bones of 34 of Custer's men discovered during a two-year archaeological survey. Early in the morning, descendants of the Cheyenne held a prayer service; in the afternoon, cavalrymen and Indians, many of them veterans of America's past three wars, carried out a military internment ceremony...