Debate Continues over Custer's Last Stand -- If That's What It Was.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 26, 2002 | Copyright information

By Ron Cobb, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 26--The debate over what happened at the Battle of the Little Bighorn shows no signs of abating, 126 years after the fact.

In 1983, a range fire on the battlefield exposed archaeological evidence that had been hidden by ground cover. Now it's believed that the last of Custer's men to die -- 28 -- had fled to a deep ravine several hundred yards from Last Stand Hill.

Also, after studying the juxtaposition of human remains, bullets and cartridges, archaeologist Richard Fox of the ...

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