Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who led the 7th Cavalry, lost his entire command to Lakota warriors after falling on them unexpectedly in their own territory. The only army survivor of the battle was a horse, Comanche, who became the 7th Cavalry’s mascot, trotted out draped in ceremonial black for years after the event itself.

💬 Heather Cox Richardson

I watched 🎥 Little Big Man at the time. (In case you are wondering - ★★★★) - but it just occurred to me that at that point the film was about history from 94 years prior.

Today that would be equivalent to watching a movie about an historical event in 1932. Choices would include;

• the lowest point in the Great Depression when unemployment was 25% and millions lost their life savings.
• the election of Roosevelt.
• the beginning of the end of prohibition.
• hoover forcibly 🔗📼 emptying vet camps

They all seem a lot closer to present time than Little Big Man did in 1970.

Getting older or history rhyming at a faster pace?