The Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, organized to quell the hostile Sioux, marched from Fort Abraham Lincoln on May 17, 1876, and camped about eight miles west of this site on May 24, 1876. Custer’s cavalry route passes three miles south of Taylor, continues in a general westerly direction, and enters Montana near Beach, North Dakota. The trail extends to the banks of the Little Big Horn River in Montana, where Custer and a portion of the 7th Cavalry were annihilated by hostile Indians on June 25, 1876.