custerwest.org new video THE REAL WEST IN TWO MINUTES "Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys ." Charles Goodnight Gary Carter

One of Custer's last messengers explained the betrayal to his son SERGEANT KANIPE ON THE BETRAYAL source: William F. Boyes, Custer's Battle Plan for 25 June 1876, in the Little Big Horn Associates Research Review, volume 22, no1, Winter 2008, page 16...

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Reno changed the words of his orders to make people believe that Custer wanted him to make an impossible charge inside the Indian village RENO CHANGED HIS OWN ORDERS source: Richard Fox, Archeology, history and Custer's last battle, University of Oklahoma...

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How could Custer have known Benteen would not be along- EVER? NO SUPPORT EVER Excerpt from E. Lisle Reedstrom, Custer's 7th Cavalry: From Fort Riley to the Little Big Horn, 1992, pages 140-146; Edited by Custerwest.org member, Jeff Veach. Excerpt from...

The story of Chief Two Moon's nephew JOHN TWO MOON AT THE GREASY GRASS source: Jerome Greene, Lakota and Cheyenne, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994, pages 46-48, Astonisher; Artwork by Howard Terpning "After they saw soldiers there, (John) Two Moon,...

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The Custer expedition into South Dakota and its aftermath (1874-1876) THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BLACK HILLS sources: Department of Dakota Cavalry Hdqtrs. - Special Orders No. 117 - June 8, 1874; Casey, Robert, The Black Hills, Bobbs-Merrill Publishing, Indianapolis...

Major Reno's incompetence and drunkeness provoked the infamous "charge to the rear" as related here by Private Theodore Goldin RENO'S DISASTROUS ROUT source: letter by Theodore F. Goldin to C. T. Brady, August 11, 1904, Astonisher Little Bighorn, early...