General Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago, but for descendants of the Battle of Little Bighorn’s two protagonists the ...
The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate exactly how the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne secured their victory ...
The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most famous and most misunderstood events in American history. On June 25, ...
Click to open image viewer. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward Custer, 7th US Cavalry. Custer, the younger brother of General George Armstrong Custer, was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn on ...
The one officer of the 7th Cavalry who was most like Col. George Custer was also the officer most contemptuous of Custer. The majority of the adjectives and phrases that I found describing Frederick ...
Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time—according to the history books. Schoolboys are told ...
Few figures in American history are as divisive as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. He's been hailed as a hero and martyr by some, and vilified as a brash fool who got what he deserved at ...
Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...