Qualla: Battle of Pease Bottom https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/8/5/w/battle-of-pease-bottom-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Pease Bottom https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom Battle of Pease Bottom: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom/ Photo credit Naawada2016, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the pre-dawn hours of August 11, 1873, gunfire crackled across the Yellowstone River. Warriors from Sitting Bull's village were shooting into Custer's cavalry camp. Three years before their fateful meeting at Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and the Hunkpapa medicine man faced each other for the first time. Many of the same warriors who fought that morning along the Yellowstone would fight again in 1876. This time, at Pease Bottom, Custer would survive.

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]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/8/5/w/battle-of-pease-bottom-wp/c85w-battle-of-pease-bottom-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Pease Bottom: The Railroad Survey War https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom/ Photo credit Naawada2016, CC BY-SA 4.0. Custer's cavalry was escorting the Northern Pacific Railway survey party along the Yellowstone River in the summer of 1873. Colonel David S. Stanley commanded the entire expedition: 1,300 soldiers, two artillery pieces, 275 mule-drawn wagons, and 353 civilian surveyors. Twenty-se...

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]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/8/5/w/battle-of-pease-bottom-wp/c85w-battle-of-pease-bottom-the-railroad-survey-war.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Pease Bottom: Treaty Lands and Broken Promises https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom/ Photo credit Naawada2016, CC BY-SA 4.0. The ground where Custer camped had a complicated history. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851 had designated this area as Crow Indian country, a fact the Lakota themselves acknowledged. But by 1868, the Crow had agreed to a smaller reservation, and the land north of the Yellowston...

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]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/8/5/w/battle-of-pease-bottom-wp/c85w-battle-of-pease-bottom-treaty-lands-and-broken-promises.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Pease Bottom: Dawn Attack https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom/ Photo credit Naawada2016, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sitting Bull's village numbered between 400 and 500 lodges, fielding an estimated 800 to 1,000 warriors. Among their leaders were Gall and the war chief Rain in the Face of the Hunkpapa, Crazy Horse of the Oglala, and warriors of the Miniconjou and Cheyenne. As dawn broke, warrio...

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]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/8/5/w/battle-of-pease-bottom-wp/c85w-battle-of-pease-bottom-dawn-attack.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Pease Bottom: Casualties and Consequences https://qualla.com/battle-of-pease-bottom/ Photo credit Naawada2016, CC BY-SA 4.0. The battle cost the army one killed and four wounded, plus at least one horse. Second Lieutenant Charles Braden suffered a shattered thigh that would keep him on sick leave until his retirement in 1878; he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1925. Custer e...

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