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Custer still stands
The "Custer Week" next October in Monroe, Michigan, Custer's town MONROE HONORS ITS HERO By Myranda Morgan, The Monroe Journal If you have ever watched a General George Armstrong Custer documentary or attended a Veteran’s Day parade in downtown Monroe,...
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CTW #3: Rambo and Jack Crabb stand for Custer
CUSTER TRUTH WATCH report Custer Truth to custerwest.org Taking a Stand works Author of the book"Little Big Man" speaks about the Custer controversy RAMBO AND JACK CRABB TAKE A STAND source: American Heritage Magazine AMERICAN HERITAGE MAGAZINE: When...
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Watching a battle
WATCHING A BATTLE ON WEIR POINT by David Cornut, author of "Little Big Horn" (France, 2006) contact@custerwest.org Benteen eventually followed Weir (see "Reno Hill"), but only 30 minutes after him. The battle was still raging on, as Historian Gregory...
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What the scouts really said
WHAT THE SCOUTS REALLY SAID Wonderful artwork by Michael Schreck, http://michaelschreckart.com In the traditional account of the battle, one depicts Indian scouts warning Custer of a suicidal attack. In fact, it never happened that way. It is a myth,...
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How the last stand looked like
HOW THE LAST STAND LOOKED LIKE Here is one of the most accurate portrayal of the Last Stand ever (taken from "The Custer Album") 42 men behind 39 dead horses, in a 30-feet circle. "Custer's men were along a ridgeline, and they were either running along...
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George Herendeen's account on casualties
Scout and Little Bighorn veteran George Herendeen on INDIAN CASUALTIES source: The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custerania, edited by Colonel W.A. Graham, Stackpole, 1953, page 260 " The Indians must have lost as many men in killed and wounded as the...
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Custer was killed on his last hill
CUSTER DIED ON HIS HILL One of the most dominating myth of Little Bighorn is that George A. Custer was killed near the river, in a ravine etc. It's totally impossible. Custer was killed on the location he was found, in other words, in the middle of his...
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George Custer, "My Life on the Plains"
George Armstrong Custer "MY LIFE ON THE PLAINS" OR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH INDIANS Table of Contents I. The Great Plains II. General Hancock's Campaign III. A Futile Pursuit IV. Indian Raids and Murders V. From Fort Hays to Fort McPherson VI. The Indians...
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Proving the Last Stand
PROVING THE LAST STAND William Rini is a teacher, a long-time LBH specialist and a Frontier reenactor. Concerning Dr. Richard Fox's theories about "no last stand at Little Bighorn ( controversial archaeology ) : he is clearly an expert in the field of...
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Indian testimonies
INDIAN TESTIMONIES ON CUSTER'S RESISTANCE source: Gregory Michno, Lakota Noon, the Indian narrative of Custer's defeat, Mountain Press, 1997 Crow King, Sioux hunkpapa warchief (Michno, p.178): Riderless mounts scattered across the hills and ran to the...
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200 Indians were killed on the battlefield
2006 National Park Service study shows that 200 Indian warriors have been killed RESEARCHS FROM THE LITTLE BIG HORN BATTLEFIELD ON INDIAN CASUALTIES source: Friends of the Little Bighorn Association, 2006 summer event "From this vantage point we had a...
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"They Died with their boots on" (1941)
One of Hollywood's most legendary movie, with Errol Flynn as General Custer and Olivia DeHavilland as Libbie. They Died with Their Boots On From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They Died with Their Boots On Directed by Raoul Walsh Produced by Hal B....
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Known Indian fatalities
BATTLE OF THE WASHITA KNOWN FATALITIES 80 Cheyenne warriors, warchiefs or civilians have been named during the researchs on the Battle of the Washita source : Jerome Greene, Washita: The Army and the Southern Cheyennes, University of Oklahoma Press, pages...
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Finding the Blinns at Washita
FOUND ON THE GROUND OF THE BATTLE OF THE WASHITA THE BLINNS source: Stan Hoig, The Battle of the Washita, University of Nebraska Press, 1970, page 212 Major Harold Moore, of the 19th Kansas, indicated that the bodies of the Blinns (two of Black Kettle's...
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Washita casualties
Washita 1868 : anti-terror campaign against Black Kettle's Cheyennes VICTORY ON THE WASHITA RIVER THE REAL INDIAN CASUALTIES "A dispatch from a special correspondent of the Leavenworth Conservative, dated "in the field, Indian Territory, November 28,...
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Warchiefs killed at Washita
THE 1868 BATTLE OF THE WASHITA WARCHIEFS KILLED Source : Stan Hoig, The Battle of the Washita, University of Nebraska Press, 1970, pages 140, page 242 (note for page 140) 13 Headmen and warchiefs killed in the Battle of the Washita (as told to Interpreter...
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Little Rock's story of Black Kettle's massacres
LITTLE ROCK'S INTERVIEW, August 19, 1868 RELATING BLACK KETTLE'S MASSACRES edited by David Cornut, author of "Little Big Horn" (France, 2006) Source: “Report of an interview between E. W. Wynkoop, US Indian Agent, and Little Rock, a Cheyenne Chief Held...
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The 1868 Kansas massacres
BLACK KETTLE'S MASSACRES Black Kettle, Little Rock and his people all admitted the massacres their warriors had done. But they are still remembered as peaceful chiefs... edited by David Cornut, author of "Little Big Horn" (France, 2006) http://www.oldgloryprints.com...
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Clara Blinn: Washita martyr
The story of Clara Blinn and her son, Black Kettle's hostages WASHITA MARTYR sources: Gregory F. Michno, A Fate Worse than Death , Caxton Press, 2007, page 152 MMS 1646 mf, Richard Blinn's diary, Bowling University ; David J. Wishart (ed), Encyclopedia...
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What Martini really said
WHAT MARTINI REALLY SAID source: Custer in '76: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight, edited by Kenneth Hammer, Brigham Young University Press 1976 page 99 Giovanni Martini (aka John Martin) was Custer's last messenger, giving to Captain Benteen the...
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Lieutenant Godfrey on Reno
GODFREY ON RENO Lieutenant Godfrey (letter to Agent Asbury in 1929): "...I always felt that Major Reno utterly failed in his part in the valley attack in the disposition of his command when he fell back in the old stream bed; that he failed to exercise...
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Weir Point witness
WEIR POINT WITNESS source: WMRH's Story of the Custer Fight, in Hutchins’ Papers of E.S. Curtis, pp. 53-54 Here is an other account that says that Custer was still fighting when Benteen was on Weir Point (6 p.m., a proof that the battle wasn't short)....
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Custer and Tullocks Creek
Another myth of the Little Bighorn CUSTER AND TULLOCKS CREEK source: Colonel William Graham, The Custer Myth, page 131 In the movie " Son of the Morning Star ", as well as in many articles and books, it is said that Custer neglected to scout Tullocks...
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Reno Hill heroes
The story of how Custer's men got their Medal of Honor by holding Reno Hill MEDALS FOR CUSTER'S MEN source: Larry Sklenar, "Medals for Custer's men". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Winter 2000. FindArticles Larry Sklenar is the author of the...
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Custer's death?
Minneconjou Beard's account THE STORY OF CUSTER'S DEATH? source: Custer's Fall by David H. Miller. I had no time to paint Zi Chischila properly for making war, just a minute or so to braid his tail and to daub a few white hail spots of paint on my own...