About Steve

Steve Adelson is a thirty-year veteran in education, working in Montana, Alaska and Wyoming. He has taught living history fieldcourses for Montana State University and the Heritage Institute. He has highlighted a multitude of venues, speaking at schools, museums, libraries, and historical associations. He recently retired from the National Park Service, where he worked for thirteen seasons as a Ranger Interpreter at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. He has presented to hundreds of thousands of visitors during this period, astonishing audiences with his passion, stunning rhetoric, and evocative story telling. Adelson’s extraordinary expertise is the Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer’s Final Battle. This focus has been the pinnacle of his historical pursuits. He has 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 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.