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The Scots of the 7th: menwithcuster.com (Peter Groundwater Russell) — Stuart Forbes/”Hiley” (/26/), Charles Scott (/53/), Alexander Brown (/05/), James Hill (/27/), Thomas Conlan (/10/); littlebighorn.info rosters — Hamilton, Callan, Moodie, McMasters; clan-forbes.org/post/little-bighorn (family, plaque); Russell & Hodgson, English by Birth, Scottish by Blood (English Westerners’ Society, 2016); Glasgow Sunday Post, 14 Sept 2003 (via friendslittlebighorn.com) — “10 Scots” count and gambling-debts claim.

Campaign & battle: NPS Little Bighorn Battle Story & Chronology (nps.gov/libi); Terry’s order and Gatling/2nd Cav refusals (HistoryNet; HMdb Rosebud campsite marker); Windolph, I Fought with Custer (1946) — last “Garryowen” (says Tongue River; historians place the depot at Powder River, June 15); Bruce P. Gleason, “The Mounted Band and Field Musicians of the U.S. 7th Cavalry,” Historic Brass Society Journal 21 (2009); Garryowen origins (Garraí Eoin, Limerick) — standard references; 1st Cavalry Division Assn. (“as the story goes” — drunk-trooper legend); news chronology — W.A. Graham, The Custer Myth (Bozeman Times July 3, Helena Herald July 4); ND State Historical Society facsimile of the Bismarck Tribune extra, July 6, 1876.

Archaeology & Native accounts: Douglas D. Scott interview (savingplaces.org); Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield, “Dig of 1984”; Scott, Fox, Connor & Harmon, Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1989); Richard A. Fox Jr., Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle (1993)

The 150th (June 2026): AP via Las Vegas Sun (380+ riders, victory commemoration); NPR, June 27, 2026 (19 tribal nations; “cup of coffee” — Christopher Eagle Bear, Sicangu Lakota); KTVQ (Real Bird 34th annual, June 26–28, record crowds; Jim Real Bird quotes); Buffalo’s Fire 150th schedule (“Victory Day” usages; Arvol Looking Horse memorial ride); NPS 150th page.

Montana pipers: John Dally, “Some Forgotten History of Piping in the Pacific Northwest” (APNA, June 28, 2012; pipersgathering.org) — MacRae ranch, Kintail recruitment, Butte rendezvous, Mather biography; pipetunes.ca Mather composer bio (medals, estates, 1901 emigration, Bozeman 1943); pipingpress.com Oban & Inverness medallist rolls (Mather 1891, 1899); Strathnaver Museum, “Pioneering Bagpipes” (Sutherland of Rogart; Oregon Trail pipes; ranch roster); Bagpipe News: “Who was Simon Fraser?” (Apr. 20, 2020 — Pearson, Bismarck Tribune, Oban Times 1974, A.K. Cameron) and “Donald Sutherland’s pipes with a pioneer spirit” (July 12, 2023); NLS checklist of bagpipe MSS — A.K. Cameron papers MSS 9613–9624; Pearson thesis Acc. 8424.

The legend chain: Scottish Sunday Express (1975) via The Highlander Vol. 13 No. 4 (Oct. 1975) — quotes from Ian Williams’s research notes (~2006), original not yet re-located; October 1975 absent from FamilySearch Library microfilm (verified June 2026); Pearson newspaper appeals (two original clippings held by Ian Williams — transcribed in Section 3); Schenectady Pipe Band legacy history page (uncited trivia line); Winans background — Winans v Macrae (1885) 22 SLR 692; Scottish Legal News.