Thank you for watching. This is a different way of looking at the battle and it proved to be an unusual challenge. The maps themselves took over a year to do. I am now working on the commentary for the other five sections of this series. Be on the lookout for them. I hope to get them out one-by-one in the next couple of months at the latest.

Great work. The 2010 vids were well done and told me a lot that I had not seen in the books I went through.

Bill, how about the story of the burials. And also how they surveyed, mapped, and measured with an odometer wagon the battlefield? Really enjoy your work !!! Since you began.

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed this twist to the battle. Be on the lookout for the next five parts due out in the near future.

Phenomenal work here!!! Your previous documentary was stunning. Looking forward to the maps along with you narration. I've visited the Battlefield and had an awesome tour with one of the guides. Observed the eastern back country as we headed down the warriors path highway. I often wonder why Custer isn't given more credit for turning back JEB Stuart at Gettysburg, You have a very enriching manner in the way you convey history.

Have you ever thought ( I do not know where you live) to give a complete walk through of the battle from the Wolf mountains on. Not on video but for amature historians ( for a fee of course.)

Thank you for these

Bill: You have done a great job with this documentary. I have watched some of the videos multiple times and have really enjoyed them. I have a question that I wondered if you could help with. According to the book Custer's Fall, The Native American Side of the Story by David Humphries Miller, a 10 year old Indian boy named Deeds is killed at the location where the box of hardtack was lost by the cavalry and found by the Indians. Do you have any idea of the distance from village to the hardtack box location? That seems like it would be quite a long way off for him to be away from the village that early in the morning. Does Medicine Tail Coulee go that far as is indicated in the book?

I am a big fan of Custer mostly because of the famous Michigan charge at the battle of Gettysburg and the fight at Little Bighorn

Could you somehow indicate mileage for each movement and sight distances i.e.,sight distance from crows nest to Bighorn valley. You've done a very good job with your video and now maps series. Filling in a lot of blanks for me.

Haven't heard from you in a while, hope everythings Ok. Happy holidays.

If you could just add mileage info to your current maps that would be helpful. I thought I read somewhere that the sight line from the crows nest to the valley was 15 miles. From Custers bluff vantage point could he than see the entire village or only a portion.

From all my studies of this battle there is a consensus that the last men to perish were in the Deep Ravine area. It seems that these bodies were never recovered and I find that hard to believe. Is there any info that would indicate that these men are buried in the mass grave or the cemetery and they are not still somewhere in Deep Ravine.

Yes I could. That is pretty easy. Let me know which distances you want. Much of my distances come from authors like John Gray, Richard Fox, and Roger Darling. John Gray's book titled " Custer's Last Campaign" has detailed information on the time and distances of each important feature regarding this event. It is an important book to any serious Custer researcher. I highly recommend it.

To clarify my last comment about Custer I meant to indicate when he reached the WEIR point area.

So is the best driving route for following this route Reno Creek Road?

Your maps help a great deal !!! I have the topo map book of Montana..... the rivers and creeks are not that easy to follow.

So, did all of that, "There are more warriors than you have bullets in your guns," or, "Today we go home by a road we do not know," and that sense of foreboding by the Crow scouts ever really happen, or was it revisionist history? It sounds to me like everyone, (including Varnum and the scouts) at least at this point AND after seeing the huge pony herd, was actually trying to SPEED UP the engagement and attack, far more concerned that they'd been spotted and that the large village would scatter instead of fight. Maybe this fear of the village and oncoming conflict came later, but it's sounding more and more like something that was invented after the fact.