The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West.
It set the stage for the battle that occurred eight days later when, just twenty-five miles away, George Armstrong Custer blundered into the very same village that had outmatched Croo.
The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West