Son of the Morning Star : Custer and the Little BighornOn a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer had survived. Custer's Last Stand