Ed Vebell: Custer's Last Stand

Artist: Ed Vebell
1921 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1979
Image Size: 21 by 19.75 inches
Overall Size: 26.5 by 26 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Hot Press Illustration Board

In 1862, the powerful Sioux -- the largest Indian tribe of the Plains -- trying to stem the invasion of their ancestral hunting grounds by farmers and adventurers took to the warpath. Roundly defeated by the United States Army, they were driven backwards to the Black Hills of Dakota, where their reservations were guaranteed to them by the Laramie Treaty of 1868. Six years later rumors of gold in the Black Hills brought in thousands of eager prospectors and their hangers-on. Unable to stem the influx, the Army chose instead to confine the Indians on their reservations. Desperate, the Sioux once again tried to protect themselves with force. The Indian Bureau and the Army sided with the invaders. In the spring of 1876, General Sheridan dispatched General George Custer, who had served with distinction at Gettysburg, to join forces with General George Crook in teaching the Sioux a lesson. Always impetuous, and without waiting for reinforcements, Custer moved on with only seven hundred men to the Sioux encampment on the Little Big Horn. Dividing his small force into three battalions, Custer moved to attack on June 25. Soon Custer and his contingent of 265 men found themselves surrounded by some 2500 warriors under the redoubtable Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer and his command were annihilated to a man. Within a few months the Sioux were themselves tracked down by Army forces.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® Commemorative Cover for Epic Events in American History series issued in 1985.

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