Pictograph "Battle of the Little Bighorn"

Pictograph -“Battle of the Little Bighorn” – Program by Author & Historian Colonel Rodney Thomas, Held at the Downtown Abbey 1202 Felix St., St. Joseph, Missouri – 6:00 p.m.

Stephen Standing Bear was present at the battle in 1876.  In the 1920s, he illustrated the battlefield as he remembered it in large-scale muslin pictographs, using pencil and ink.  One such pictograph is exhibited at the St. Joseph Museum.  For a closer look at the pictographs and the battle they record, join us as historian and author Colonel Rodney Thomas shares his research into the topic at the Downtown Abbey, 1202 Felix St., at 6 p.m.  His first book, Rubbing Out Long Hair, about the Indian warrior art and testimony about the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, was published in 2009 and awarded the 2010 G. Joseph Sills Jr. Book Award by the Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association.  The event will include the program, hors d'oeuvres, and the chance to view the pictograph from the St. Joseph Museum collection.  For more information, call the St. Joseph Museum at 816-232-8471 or visit stjosephmuseum.org/events.  Admission:  $10 per person, each guest will receive a free pass to the St. Joseph Museum – Museum Members are Free! 

Price: $10

Ages: 14 and above - Adults Welcome