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Benteen's betrayal
Benteen. Be quick. Bring packs. source : CBHMA ; Robert Utley, Cavalier In Buckskin, new edition 2001, pp.159-162 . Historian Charles Kulhman " Custer meant, in that order, that he wanted the ammunition taken from the [pack] train and rushed ahead as...
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Bretrayal at Little Bighorn
"I supposed General Custer able to take care of himself." Captain Benteen, 1879 BENTEEN'S SLOWNESS By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) Sources: Hammer, Custer in ’76, page 75 Hunt; I...
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Captain Weir
The greatest hero of Little Bighorn THOMAS WEIR Answering the call of duty… against all odds By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) Sources quoted in the text. ___ Captain Thomas B. Weir...
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Eyewitness : Red Horse
The Battle of Little Bighorn An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse recorded in pictographs and text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881. Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of the American Indians, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American...
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Eagle Elk's account
An Oglala Sioux's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn EAGLE ELK' MEMORIES source: Lakota Recollections edited by Richard G. Hardorff, pages 99 -105 Art : Michael Schreck, http://michaelschreckart.com DIFFERENT BANDS were camped [together]. They...
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"Little Big Man" (1970)
"Little Big Man" Movie by Arthur Penn, 1970 With Dustin Hoffmann, Faye Dunaway The movie was created to support the communist dictatorship in Vietnam against the United States of America during the Vietnam war. Indians are depicted as brave patriots,...
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Specialists of the American West: David Cornut, Xavier Cornut...
custerwest.org : 30 SPECIALISTS Become member of custerwest.org - and take a stand for the Battle of the Little Bighorn, General Custer, the American Indian warriors and the Frontier army ! You can send articles and pictures on Custer's life and help...
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We must go to Custer!
" We must go to Custer!" WEIR versus RENO By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) ________________________ Sources : Hammer, Custer in ’76, page 71 Gray, Centennial Campaign, page 183 McClernand,...
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Lieutenant Varnum's account
VARNUM: THE LAST MORNING source: The Custer Myth by Colonel W.A. Graham, pages 342 - 343 Lieutenant Charles Varnum was the chief of scouts at the Little Bighorn. Here is one of his personal letter, written on July 4, 1876., about the morning before the...
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Indian accounts of the Last Stand
TO THE LAST MAN Indian accounts of the Last Stand Edited by David Cornut, author of "Little Bighorn, autopsy of a legendary battle" (published in French, 2006) - contact@custerwest.org sources : Michno, Lakota Noon, pages 52, 251-256, 260 Hardorff, Lakota...
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Federal accounts of the Last Stand
HOLD THE LINE Federal accounts of the Last Stand Edited by David Cornut, author of "Little Bighorn, autopsy of a legendary battle" (published in French, 2006) - contact@custerwest.org sources : Graham, The Custer Myth, page 220 Scott, Fox, Connors, Archaeological...
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"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (2007)
Are you ready to be sermonized? HBO's 2007 BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE TV review By Virginia Heffernan, May 25, 2007 This project was doomed to overreach and to sermonize. To begin with, it’s about American Indians, who ever since Sacheen Littlefeather...
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The Batte of the Washita (Enc. of Indian wars)
THE BATTLE OF THE WASHITA November 27, 1868 General Custer's 7th cavalry against Black Kettle's Cheyennes Source: Gregory F. Michno, ENCYCLOPEDIA of Indian Wars 1850-1890, pages 226-227 "On November 12, 1868 , 11 companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt....
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The Mary Adams controversy
The controversy that proved General Miles was right MAR(IA) ADAM'S AFFIDAVIT Maria Adams was Custer's black servant, like Eliza (in the picture) before her. After the battle of the Little Bighorn, General Terry stated that Custer had disobeyed orders....
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A newspaper and the Washita campaign
A NEWSPAPER AND THE WASHITA VICTORY Emporia News Archives (from microfilm) Emporia News, August 21, 1868. INDIAN MASSACRE. We clip the following news from the Junction City Union of Saturday last. We stop the press to record an Indian outbreak of a horrible...
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No threat around Reno Hill
NO WARRIORS AROUND RENO HILL WHILE SHOTS ARE HEARD By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) Sources quoted in text. contact@custerwest.org ___ While Custer’s 210 men were fighting Indians...
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Captain French on Reno
LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN Captain Thomas French was one of the few officers who weren't heard at the Reno Court of Inquiry, convened January 13, 1879. Reasons : he was highly critical of Major Reno's conduct during the whole battle. He considered Reno to...
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Elizabeth Custer, "Boots and Saddle"
Elizabeth Bacon Custer "BOOTS AND SADDLES" OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER Dedicated TO MY HUSBAND THE ECHO OF WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN MY INSPIRATION. ONE of the motives that have actuated me in recalling these simple annals of our daily life, has...
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Terry's orders to Custer - Carte blanche
TERRY'S ORDERS Annual Report of the Secretary of War for 1876, which is House Executive Document 1 for the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress (Serial volume 1742), page 462 Headquarters of the Department of Dakota (In the Field) Camp at Mouth...
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Reno's behavior
Private John Burkman's account of RENO'S BEHAVIOR ON RENO HILL source: Old Neutriment, Glendolin Damon Wagner, Ruth Hill Publishers, Boston, MA, 1934 pages 166-171 "Long towards night o' the fust day -- the twentyfifth -- the smoke cleared some in the...
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Little Sioux's account of the battle
Account by an Arikara scout LITTLE SIOUX'S STORY source: The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign against the Hostile Dakotas, June 1876, pages 149 - 157 IT WAS EARLY in the morning, just at sunrise, and there came down from the butte, Red Star and...
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US General in chief Nelson A Miles on LBH (video)
General Miles talked about the Little Big Horn Read Miles' "Personal Recollections" here : The Custer Massacre , pp. 212-220 Visiting Custer battlefield, pp. 283-293 NELSON APPLETON MILES US General in chief Nelson A. Miles (1839-), American soldier,....
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Black Kettle, not a peaceful leader
BLACK KETTLE source: Chief Black Kettle, by historian Gregory F. Michno, custerwest.org member and author of several important Custer books, Wild West magazine, December 2005, History Net "After all the efforts of both sides, the treaty lasted only until...
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General Custer, USA Today, 1994
Rewarded with rapid promotions, he became the youngest brigadier general at 23) and, later, major general in the Union Army. During the final six months of the war, Custer's men captured 111 artillery pieces, 65 battle flags, and 10,000 prisoners. It...
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The Sioux at Little Bighorn
SIOUX WARRIORS AT LITTLE BIGHORN Montana University American Horse (Wasico Tasunke) (14); Oglala Chief, leader of the Bear People band (12); son of Sitting Bear (11); his brother also fought in the battle (8); later a prominent chief at Pine Ridge Reservation;...