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George Armstrong Custer
Fate brought Custer and Sitting Bull together one bloody June evening at the Little Bighorn—and marked the end of the Wild West
Our greatest Western novelist deciphers Crazy Horse, Custer, and the hard year of the Little Bighorn
In the fall of 1960 a novelty-song about Custer’s Last Stand climbed its way inexplicably onto the Billboard charts.
Novelist; author of Chesapeake and Texas , among many others
The old school is alive with the memory of men like Lee, Grant, Pershing, and Eisenhower
Each year most of West Point’s three million visitors enter the U.S. Military Academy through the Thayer Gate.
How the Generals Viewed the Indians
The white man’s peace at Appomattox in 1865 meant war for the Plains Indians.
No battle in American history has won more attention than the relatively insignificant defeat at the Little Bighorn River in 1876.
A Cheyenne historian whose grandfather was in the battle sheds new light on the slaughter of Custer and his troopers
So spoke Sitting Bull, greatest of Sioux chiefs, as he bitterly watched his people bargain away their Dakota homeland
To Stanley Vestal, the old Sioux warrior White Bull describes the day when he counted his greatest coup
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