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That miserably-written “article” confuses more than it enlightens

I agree.

Every year during Custer Days (the anniversary week) there are two reenactments of the battle. One is on the open area close to Hardin. The second is conducted on The Little Bird Ranch which is adjacent to the battlefield.

The Little Bird version preparation includes an actual "Calvary Camp" for a week prior that is conducted each year for the soldiers that reenact the battle. Most of these actors come from out of state each year and live as close to the actual conditions the 7th Calvary endured. One of the organizers of the camp is named Custer, but he claims no relation to the general.

Of the two reenactments the Little Bird version is the best. It tells a completely different story of the end of Custer as portrayed in movies and books. It is a legacy story that was told from generation to generation as to why Custer was killed and how. Their version says that Custer and his men attacked an Indian camp in the previous months and killed many women and children. Word spread that a blonde soldier was responsible so Custer was on the Indians most wanted list. When he showed up at the Little Big Horn they were ready to seek their vengenace on him. In the Little Bird version they say Custer met his end at Medicine Coulee when he was knocked off his horse and drug up to the shore and staked to the ground and eventually the warriors cut his heart out.

I would have rather read a story about this theory of the end of Custer than the Dickenson story.

I have read that Custer had provided regular army protection to Chivington's militia in the attack on a Cheyenne village in Colorado (Sand Creek?), that all of the young men were out hunting, that their chief was the elderly Black Kettle who had long since made peace with the Grant administration. Custer did not actually attack. The Chivington Massacre was a rank disgrace in which the victims were the elderly, the disabled, the children. One trooper showed a captured infant to Chivington and asked whether he should kill the child to obey Chivington's orders to kill every Indian. Chivington replied: "Nits become lice."

And, as Paul Harvey used to say: Here is the rest of the story. A girl in the village had been impregnated by Custer and bore him a daughter with blonde hair. When he abandoned her, she became unmarriageable and an outcast. Whether she was killed in the massacre, I do not recall. THEN, Custer backed up Chivington much later. One Cheyenne warrior when to Little Big Horn with the specific intent of killing Custer and, about 25 years later, claimed/admitted his success.