Crow Agency in Big Horn County, Montana — The American West (Mountains)
Keogh Crazy Horse Fight
Little Bighorn Battlefield
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Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 23, 2015
1. Keogh – Crazy Horse Fight Marker
The Indian charge shatters the Calhoun defense and crashes through the soldier position at right, held by Capt. Myles Keoghs Company I, Crazy Horse and White Bull cut down the retreating soldiers who flee northwest along this ridge in an effort to join the remnants of Custers command on Last Stand Hill. Members of Company C and L were also found here.
It looked to me as if Keogh must have attempted to make a stand on foot to enable Custer to get away because he and his company died in one compact mass, whereas from here on the graves are scattered irregular clumps and at intervals about like those in the slaughter of buffaloes - - - Lt. John Bourke, 3rd Cavalry, 1877.
The soldiers were on one side of the hill, and the Indians on the other side, a slight rise between the two parties. At this point Crazy Horse came up and rode between the two parties. The soldiers fired at once, but missed him.- - - Red Feather, Oglala Lakota.
Erected by National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Indigenous Peoples and Communities • Wars, US Indian. A significant historical year for this entry is 1877.
Location. 45°
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Regionally, this marker is in Montana’s and he Crow Nation, in Southeast Montana, in Custer Country. It is also in the American Mountain West, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, on the prairies, on the Great Plains, and specifically on the Northern Plains. Globally, it is in North America, the Rocky Mountains, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Ruperts Land and also the Louisiana Purchase.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Cheyenne Warrior Markers (a few steps from this marker); Companies F and I (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Deep Ravine (approx. 0.2 miles away); Last Stand Hill, June 25, 1876 (approx. Ό mile away); Memorial Markers (approx. Ό mile away); Companies C & E (approx. Ό mile away); Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (approx. 0.3 miles away); Indian Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Crow Agency.
More about this marker. The background of the marker contains a picture of the fighting that occurred at this location.
Also see . . . The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876. (Submitted on August 7, 2015, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.)
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 23, 2015
2. Keogh – Crazy Horse Fight Marker
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 23, 2015
3. Marker on the Little Bighorn Battlefield
Photographed by Allen C. Browne
4. Captain M. W. Keogh
Commanding Troop “I”
Commanding Troop “I”
from The Century Illustrated, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, January 1891.
Credits. This page was last revised on May 12, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 7, 2015, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 5,902 times since then and 275 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 7, 2015, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 4. submitted on December 9, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
