Steve Adelson is a thirty-year veteran in education, working in Montana, Alaska, and Wyoming. He has taught living-history field courses for Montana State University and the Heritage Institute. Adelson is also a keynote speaker at a multitude of venues, speaking at schools, museums, libraries, and historical associations. In 2023, Steve Adelson retired from the National Park Service, where he worked for thirteen seasons as a Ranger Interpreter at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
During his tenure at the Battlefield, Adelson presented to hundreds of thousands of visitors, astonishing audiences with his passion, stunning rhetoric, and evocative story telling. His extraordinary expertise and knowledge of the Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer’s Final Battle, has been the primary focus of his historical pursuits.
Adelson studied this confrontation for thirty-five years and has been the fortunate recipient of Michael Donahue’s tutelage. As a ranger at Little Bighorn for thirty-five years, Donahue is the world’s preeminent authority on the battle. Adelson and Donahue spent thirteen years together as rangers at Little Bighorn Battlefield, studying first hand Native and soldier accounts, scouring the battlefield and examining artifact archives.
Steve Adelson has been a presenter on the History Channel, The Discovery Channel, CBS News Sunday Morning, The BBC, and the Travel Channel. He has also written a book entitled Little Bighorn; Voices from a Distant Wind, and produced a documentary in DVD format entitled, Contested Ground. Tour attendees will receive a copy of the book and DVD.
Steve Adelson. C-SPAN Cities Tour – Billings: Battle of the Little Bighorn.
