Custer and the Little Bighorn

Lieutenant Godfrey on what happened on Reno Hill during two hours RENO'S INCOMPETENCE source: Century Magazine, January 1892 (in William Graham, The Custer Myth, 1953, pages 129-145) "Reno was already in the fight and his (Custer's) own battalion was...

When Civil War's John Singleton Mosby's Partisan Rangers clashed with George A. Custer's Union Cavalry, the niceties of war were the first casualty. Reprisal and counter reprisal became the order of the day. CUSTER vs MOSBY : CLASH IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY...

LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN Custer’s Last Stand Still Stands Up (extract) by Robert Nightengale , Custer scholar, author of "Little Big Horn" (FarWest publishing, 1996), in Wild West magazine, August 2005 source: HistoryNet.com Not that it was always smooth...

PRIVATE HENRY DOSE'S LETTER

One of Black Kettle's headmen was leading 200 warriors in massacres of white civilians before the battle of the Washita. BLACK KETTLE'S MEN BEFORE THE WASHITA source: Richard G. Hardorff., Washita Memories, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, page 52...

CUSTER'S LAST STAND Detail from Edward Paxson's masterpiece, on display at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming sources: Paxson's paintings , Buffalo Bill Historical Center N ear the end of 1899, Paxson completed Custer's Last Stand, which...

LITTLE BIGHORN in Buffalo Bill's autobiography source: The Life and Adventures of "BUFFALO BILL", Colonel William F. Cody, His Story shows his Devotion to Duty as a Child when Supporting his Widowed Mother, his Valuable Services to the Government while...

HEROES OF THE WEST: BUFFALO BILL William F. Cody was born on February 26, 1846 near Leclair, Iowa. In 1854 his family moved to settle on lands in what would soon be Kansas Territory. Young William’s father died in 1857, leaving the boy to help provide...

HEROES OF THE WEST: THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS Known to be excellent soldiers, the black units of the US cavalry were feared by the Indians. The Buffalo soldiers (named as such by the Indians because their hair looked like the skin of buffaloes) cleared the...

War didn't kill Indians. Diseases killed Indians... And historians know it. NO GENOCIDE ON THE PLAINS The "Native American" "genocide" is a famous myth spread around the world. But it isn't the truth. Diseases (mostly smallpox) killed American Indians...