Battle of the Rosebud on the reservation by January 31, 1876 to negotiate the sale. A few bands did not comply and when the deadline of January 31 passed the US undertook to force Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and their followers onto the reservation. The first military expedition against the recalcitrant Indians in March 1876 was a failure, ending in the Battle of Powder River. In June 1876, the US military renewed the fight with a three-pronged invasion of the Bighorn and Powder river country. Colonel John Gibbon led a force from the west; General Alfred Terry (with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer) came
Battle of the Little Bighorn reenactment opposite from Medicine Tail Coulee, where fighting may have taken place. The Hardin Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has annually conducted the "Custer's Last Stand Reenactment" performed 6 miles outside of Hardin, Montana on Old U.S. Highway 87. Joe Medicine Crow wrote the script for the narrative in 1965, which recounts the significant events leading up to the battle. Although the reenactment has been held annually since the early 1990s, the 2015 event has been canceled due to costs. Battle of the Little Bighorn reenactment Battle of the Little Bighorn Reenactment is a reenactment of the Battle of the