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Custer in "Spirit" (2002)
Custer is a ruthless and honorable soldier in a 2002 cartoon CUSTER IN ANIMATION Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is an animated film that was released in 2002 by DreamWorks Pictures. General Custer is simply named "The Colonel". The movie opens with...
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Abandoned
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...
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn in six minutes
now you can visit : Custer's Last Stand, the case Welcome to the world of Custeriana! Warning : there is no turning back for the Custer passion. :-) The chart of the Custer buff #1 I will trust but historical evidence #2 I will respect General Custer...
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Ree scout Bloody Knife
Arikara scout and Little Bighorn fallen hero ARIKARA PRIDE Bloody Knife was born in 1840 to an Hunkpapa Sioux father and a Ree mother. He spent his first 16 years with his father, but was frequently taunted, beaten and abused for being a "half-breed"....
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A friendship in the Civil War
The Story of Generals Young and Custer CUSTER'S CONFEDERATE FRIEND source: Cartersville Bartow County Pierce Manning Butler Young was a young West Point cadet in 1861 from Cartersville, Georgia. His roommate, George Armstrong Custer, was a Yankee. They...
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Custer's heroes in the Civil War
Men of Custer's division who gained the Medal of Honor in the Shenandoah Valley, during the Civil War CUSTER'S HEROES Medal of Honor recipients : Hartwell B. Compson, Robert Niven, & Andrew Kuder, Charles Goheen, Daniel Kelly, Henry Bickford, James Congdon,...
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custerwest.org links
custerwest.org's LINKS JOIN THE LINE put a link to custerwest.org and propose your website for this page! contact@custerwest.org www.thelbha.org : the website of the biggest Custer association in the world, which includes dozens of specialists, publishes...
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Calhoun's Last Stand
LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN White Bull's fight at Little Bighorn - and Lieutenant Calhoun's last stand CALHOUN'S LAST STAND source: Gregory Michno, "Lakota Noon", Mountain Press Publishing, page 217 Indians charge Calhoun Hill, at 5.40 p.m.. Minneconjou warchief...
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Reno's attack by Wooden Leg
Cheyenne warrior Wooden Leg remembers the first hour of the battle REMEMBERING RENO'S ATTACK source: Thomas Marquis, Wooden Leg, page 217 passim In my sleep I dreamed that a great crowd of people were making lots of noise. Something in the noise startled...
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Brave Wolf's account of the last stand
" They were all drawn up in line of battle, shooting well and fighting hard, but there were so many people around them, that they could not help being killed. They still held their line of battle and kept fighting and falling from their horses; fighting...
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Historian Michno on Reno and Benteen
LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN Historian Michno on the duration of the fight and Reno's/Benteen's behavior THEIR BEST INTERESTS http://www.david-strathairn.com : Son of the Morning Star (1991) Source: Gregory F. Michno, Lakota Noon, the Indian narrative of Custer’s...
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George Crook in 1876
Three columns had to hunt Indians in 1876. But George Crook's 1'300 soldiers lost ten men at the battle of the Rosebud and then fell back to... go fishing on the Yellowston river. GEORGE CROOK'S DUTY Mary Trotter Kion , Suite101 Two major battles took...
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Custer's medal
Custer in the Civil War CUSTER'S MEDAL To make his men proud of their unit, General George A. Custer created a medal, the "Custer Medal". A star, two crossed sabers and a cross were designed and eventually made by an industry in New York. On the cross,...
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Custer, International star
Benteen's worse nightmare! CUSTER INTERNATIONAL STAR General Custer, by Andy Warhol, 1986 FRANCE: Custer tribute by sergekob BRAZIL: Song from the band "General Custer" : "we´re Custer's fans! We really like his biography and all his deeds." BELGIUM :...
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David Cornut's research files: Custer's Last Stand
CUSTER'S LAST STAND the campaign and the battle of the Little Bighorn Before the battle George Crook in 1876: how his column betrayed the others involved in the Sioux campaign Terry's orders to Custer - Carte blanche Witness: General Terry told General...
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Tom Custer
Thomas Ward Custer, George's younger brother and US hero THE FIGHTING LION source : Tom Custer's homepage Before the War In 1865, George Armstrong Custer said of his younger brother: "Do you want to know what I think of him? Tom should have been the General...
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Custer's funeral
On October 10, 1877, General Custer received full military honors at West Point Military Academy CUSTER'S FUNERAL source: Harper's Weekly The remains of this gallant officer were laid in their last resting place in the West Point Cemetery on the 10th...
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Custer and the Indians
Mutual respect CUSTER'S RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIANS General Custer respected his foes. During the Civil War, he gave food and clothing to Confederate prisoners who happened to be old classmates. He even took part in a wedding where everybody was dressed...
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Custer in a song
Custer is cited in a song honoring America's heroes UNCLE SAM'S HERO song by country singer Elton Britt There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere In a distant land so many miles away Only Uncle Sam's great heroes get to go there Where I wished that...
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Sound of agony : the bugle
The Bugle on Last Stand Hill SOUNDS OF BETRAYAL During the last stand, Beard and Crazy Horse tell us about soldiers in the last stand hill who were playing bugle until the end. Custer's men were probably making efforts to take the attention of the soldiers...
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Hump's account of the battle
LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN A Sioux account of the Little Bighorn WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE source: William Graham, The Custer Myth, Stackpole Books, 1953, page 78 Sioux Minneconjou Hump's account: The sun was about at meridian when the fight began. That was...
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Spielberg's ridiculous miniserie
Spielberg's miniserie "Into the West" stands as one of the most boring and ridiculous miniserie ever filmed on the American West. TEDIUM AND CLICHÉS by Glenn Garvin, June 10, 2005, Miami Herald Thoughts of a normal viewer: "No kidding, could this be the...
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Legend of the Old West: Ok Corral
THE AMERICAN WEST : LEGEND OF THE OK CORRAL After Custer's Last Stand, the extraordinary BBC program (2007) takes a look on the shoot-out at OK Corral, when the lawmen shot the gangsters... and when Wyatt Earp became an immortal legend. Enjoy this new...
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US General-in-chief Miles' analysis
Lieutenant General Miles' analysis of Little Bighorn WHAT THE SUPREME COMMANDER SAID source: US Lieutenant General (supreme commander of the army) Nelson A. Miles, Personal recollections... , The Riverside Publishing, 1897, pages 208-210, 289-290 Lieutenant...
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Born to be a soldier
WORDS OF A LEADER "You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall...