Little Big Horn

In a Branded episode "Call to Glory Part 3" General Custer rides out and shows a river to Jason McCord, or so I've read. Custer predicts that a great battle will happen at that river, the Little Big Horn.

If Custer has some kind of psychic power to predict the future, why can't he use it to avoid getting killed with over two hundred comrades, friends and relatives?

In an episode of F Troop, set around 1865-1867, Captain Permenter went to officers school and came back a tough martinet like his hero, General Custer. The other characters plotted to return him to his normal easy going self for the rest of the episode. In the last scene, General Custer, who has visited Fort Courage, gets on the stagecoach and Parmenter wishes him "Good luck in your new assignment at the Little Big Horn".

And in Dirty Dingus Magee the madame of a town in the Southwest, Belle, looks at a map belonging to General George (is that his first or last name?) and asks about the Little Big Horny River. The General tells her it is the Little Big Horn River and if he can get there before General Custer (starting from the Southwest?) he will gain undying fame.

The 1951 movie Little Big Horn has a cavalry troop learning that thousands of hostile warriors are massing at the Little big Horn and racing to warn General Custer of the danger in time.

Apparently the idea in Dirty Dingus Magree was that General George also somehow learned of the location of the hostiles at the Little Big Horn River (but apparently not how many there were) and planned to race to the Little Big Horn and defeat the hostiles and steal all the glory before Custer could find them. But events in the movie delayed him and so Custer found the hostiles first and got all the glory with his last stand. If anyone making the movie thought about the joke that much.

But in real life nobody in the army knew where the hostiles would be and they had to look for them in a hundred thousand square miles of Sioux territory. I found that out though my reading while I was still a child before I ever saw any of those episodes or movies, so the idea of the Little Big Horn as an assignment or target for Custer just seems too non historic and unrealistic for me to enjoy!