Lorain Journal Front Page – June 24, 1926

One hundred years ago today, the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn – General Custer and the 7th Cavalry's massacre and defeat at the hands of the Sioux nation – was being observed on the front page of the June 24, 1926 Lorain Journal.

(It seems so odd to me that it was only fifty years earlier than 1926. Fifty years really doesn't feel all that long ago to me, especially since I'm a year short of being fifty years out of high school.)

Anyway, the occasion was commemorated with a huge gathering of American Indians on Custer battlefield in Montana, to "pledge anew peace with the white man on whose chosen representatives they inflicted in this setting the worst defeat ever suffered by a unit of the American army."

We stopped at Custer Battlefield in Montana during one of our Brady Family camping trips Out West around 1970 or so. I remember it being a very somber experience. Here's the brochure and postcard I saved from the trip.

As a kid I remember thinking that Major Marcus A. Reno (top row, right) reminded me of Major Hochstetter on Hogan's Heroes.

Oh yeah, back to the front page.

Other articles include a follow-up to the story of Mrs. Bogart, the South Amherst woman who inherited part of a multimillionaire's estate.