The Old West Treasures of the Custer Battlefield Museum.

Is that the pistol Custer carried at the Little Bighorn? Find out - inside the Custer Battlefield Museum - located where the Battle of the Little Bighorn began, where you'll see the rare and historic treasures of Sitting Bull, Custer, and other Old West legends.
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[@Bruce-1956]

Always been fascinated by the Old West.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Looks like a Great Museum 👍🇺🇸

[@waynesarf8065]

Alas, it seems that this museum is no more. When I saw Garryowen this summer there might have been an open post office, but nothing else -- no museum open, no convenience store open, and the very gas pumps had been removed.

[@micmacpole]

There were also the military Springfield Ward-Burton 50-70 guns sent into the West starting with the Yellowstone Expedition. These weapons were issued to the 13th Infantry and 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th Cavalry companies. There were 50-70 Ward-Burton cartridges found at LBH. As there were only 300 WB carbines and 1000 WB rifles most of which were issued to Western outposts. Were these being used by the indians or were a few of these guns used by the cavalry at the battle? I own 3 WB guns, a carbine, a rifle and a converted rifle with a long barrel but with the stock shorted to carbine length. I have always wondered if that shorted rifle may have been a "long Tom" used by Captain French, who was known to use a Springfield 50-70 which had a rod to clear stuck casings in the 45-70 carbines. However I can't afford to spend 10 grand to have it tested

[@grassbackyard3825]

England has its king and queens. America has its chiefs and princesses.

[@oregonoutback7779]

Some wonderful artifacts in this video. I do have one question .... I'm certainly no gun expert, but how is there one bullet in the chamber, on a revolver?

[@danielblackburn1241]

Possibly the other five had been fired leaving last bullet in the chamber !

[@oregonoutback7779]

@@danielblackburn1241 My comment was a bit of an attempt at humor. Bullets do not rest in the chamber of a revolver. A revolver has a cylinder which holds the ammo. To "chamber" a round, means it resides in the barrel, as in semi-auto pistols.

[@danielblackburn1241]

@@oregonoutback7779 yes but when the cylinder is in line with the barrel that is the bullet being chambered . So the the bullet was in this revolver ready to be fired . That is how it was found . Good try at being humorous but in this case that bullet was ready to kill someone when the gun was dropped !

[@stun9771]

Interesting...I was under the impression that all artefacts stripped from Custer’s 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn, were later deposited, according to Native Indian oral history, somewhere Southwest of the battle site, reportedly not far from the Burnt Teepee location (a Native Indian Burial that Custer and his men set fire to), in a cave in some bluffs... However, if Native Indians had artefacts in their possession, presumably handed down through their families, as claimed in this video, that would seem to bring the veracity of the Native Indian oral history of the deposit of these items in the bluffs into question... I understand that a recent search was halted, when in a cave very likely to be the one in question, human remains were found, and the Native Indian Representative present would not allow further examination of the now ‘sacred’ site of the ‘burial’...!!

[@waynesarf8065]

No, the Indians kept a lot of that stuff for their own use (especially weapons and ammunition -- including several hundred I suppose of the fabled 1873 "Peacemaker" revolver in .45 Colt) and this is why some items were recaptured by the bluecoats in later engagements (such as Slim Buttes, where a guidon was found in the Indian camp), while others were purchased from Sitting Bull's people after they crossed the "Medicine Line" into Canada. At the 75th anniversary of the fight two Cheyenne veterans were among the celebrants and it was asserted that the U.S. Army cartridge belts they wore were captures from the battle -- though that took place in 1876 and these were 1881 pattern belts! (The Army had probably issued the belts to the two veterans, along with the usual clothing and accoutrements of a cavalryman, when they were enlisted as U.S. scouts some years after Custer's defeat.)

[@teddysalad8227]

I’ll make it there one day.

[@TodaysWildWest]

Thanks for watching! Hope you make "one day" happen soon!

[@OTuit]

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[@TodaysWildWest]

Thank You!

[@patrickkennedy8706]

Calvary??

[@johnsavage6628]

Custer isn't buried on the battle field. He was reburied at West Point a year later by Libbie his wife. This defeat must have struck right at the white man's pride who thought he was superior to the Indian. Custer made the first mistake that too many people make. He underestimated his enemy. Red Cloud defeated the white man, then made a treaty with him. This was his mistake. The white man never kept one treaty that he made with the Indian. Not one. The Indian had proved that he and his life style was superior to the white man's. The white man couldn't stand this and went out of his way to destroy the Indian. He reduced twelve million Indians down to hardly a million by 1900, and shoved them onto reservations to starve to death. The US was a nation of Indians, it wasn't free and open land. It belonged to the Indian. Custer lent himself to exterminate the Indian. And by his stupidity got 200 plus men and four family members killed and then cut into pieces making it impossible to identify the dead, which were buried where they were found. The Indian was making one last stand. Sitting Bull should have avoided this battle and gone to Canada with the deed to the Black Hills, and sold it and bought land there for his people. The Little Big Horn defeat would be the justification to further kill Indians wherever they were found. Wounded Knee was the slaughter of men, women and children by the US Army using canons. Some 175 were children. The white man proved that he was superior to the Indian and very Evil. He would not be denied anything that he wanted. Nothing. The Indian is still being set upon by the white man.

[@janabell3810]

Very well stated and I couldn’t agree with you more. I wish I could go back in time and sit down with Custer and his men and say, “what part of ‘this land is already taken’ do you not understand?” I for one am thrilled that the Native Americans won this skirmish. And they should be the ones getting reparations from the US government if you ask me.

[@rolandvasquez7844]

Custer aka: KARMA returned¡