13 Jun 2021
Cutthroat Trout Sealed Custer’s Fate
Battle of the Little Bighorn, Cutthroat Trout, George Armstrong Custer
On 13 September 1877, Captain Frederick Benteen led a company of the 7th Cavalry into the Battle of Canyon Creek armed… with a fly rod! Richard Lessner at the Museum of American Fly Fishing blog explains the key role of Salmo clarkii in George Armstrong Custer’s disastrous defeat one year previously at the Little Big Horn.
