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The Irish Knight
Myles W. Keogh's life and times THE IRISH KNIGHT source: Brian C. Pohanka, Wild Geese below: a special video tribute to Myles Keogh by custerwest.org Now I like Garryowen, When I hear it at home, But it's not half so sweet when you're going to be kilt....
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Happy Custer Day!
AUTIE! Write a message near Libbie's grave to celebrate America's Golden Cavalier "I wanted to be a mark of honor for the future generations." George Armstrong Custer is 168 years old! A comment posted by a visitor on Flagguys.com "This is one of the...
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Custer's tactics at Little Bighorn
Did Custer rely too much on his original plan although he must have known that Reno and Benteen weren't following him? CUSTER & COGNITION Extracts from an article by David C. Gompert and Richard L. Kugler, Distinguished Research Professors in the Center...
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Victory of a Patriot... on a football field
A famous star of American football is the great-great grandson of Custer's bandmaster FROM GARRYOWEN IN GLORY! It is a long way from the weather-beaten, brownish-yellow buffalo grass that blankets the quiet bluffs of the Little Bighorn battle site in...
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Custer's Last Bugler, An American journey
A look on John Martin ( Giovanni Crisostomo Martini )'s life after Little Bighorn TRACKING DOWN CUSTER'S LAST BUGLER The Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn is the final resting place of several long-dead luminaries, among them a few Medal of...
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The missing link between two eternal legends
Mexican General Santa Anna's spurs were used by Custer at Little Bighorn FROM THE ALAMO TO CUSTER'S LAST STAND source: Norfolk Historical Society The Huger spur was crafted of steel, probably in the 1840s, with a gold-inlaid band intricately engraved...
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Custer's Civil War tactics
How Custer managed his units during Civil War battles CUSTER'S TACTICS edited by "conz" , military officer, West Point graduate, LBH.info source: Custer Victorious , by Gregory J. Urwin, Bison Books Time is of the essence: “Custer was still a good two...
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Last Stand at Ia Drang
Eyewitness account of the heroic battle of the Ia Drang in Vietnam, November 14-18 1965 LAST STAND OF THE SEVENTH CAVALRY (1965) by Private 1st Class Jack P. Smith, Mishalov.com The 1st Battalion had been fighting continuously for three or four days,...
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Waynesboro, 1864
General Custer's triumph during the Civil War THE BATTLE OF WAYNESBORO by Roy Morris Jr., America's Civil War Magazine, March 2001, HistoryNet The winter of 1864-65 was one of the harshest on record in Virginia's war-torn Shenandoah Valley. Heavy snows...
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In Libbie's own words
In Libbie's own words WALK ALONE IN THE SHADOW source: Elizabeth Custer, "Boots and Saddles": Or Life in Dakota with General Custer, chapter XXIX, University of Virginia Library Not the shadow of an anxiety, nor the faintest sign of dread of the coming...
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The spirit of the West
The Spirit of the West is a mix of freedom, huge risks and responsabilities, excitement, danger, success, a new life in a vast place where everything seems possible. It's where life and death are so close, where poor become rich, where average people...
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Custer in memories
1941: while Errol Flynn plays Custer on screen, an ordinary citizen of Michigan remembers Custer CUSTER IN MEMORIES source: Monroe Library These are the days of Custer reminiscences in Monroe, awakened by the General George Armstrong Custer picture "They...
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Charisma and talent... Errol Flynn
A legend played a legend... Errol Flynn was George Custer in They Died with their Boots on Errol Flynn stars as General George Armstrong Custer whose flamboyant career began at West Point Academy and ended at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Custer's last...
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Son of the Morning Star (1991)
Cast: Dean Stockwell (General Sheridan), Rosanna Arquette (Libbie Custer), Gary Cole (General Custer) and Rodney Grant (Warchief Crazy Horse) "Son of the Morning" was the TV adaptation of Evan Connell's best-selling book. It is by far the most impressive...
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The untold story of the Frontier
The Indian Depredation Files reveals the untold story of the Frontier INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS ONE OF THE MANY ROADS TO THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Dr. Jefferson Broome . He is a member of custerwest.org and of the Custer Battlefield Historical Association...
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Custer at West Point
source: Pritzker Military Library "If Custer had run for Presidency in 1876, he would have been elected." Political scientist and author James S. Robbins, extract of the interview INTERVIEW IN VIDEO + QUESTIONS James S. Robbins on "Last of their class,...
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The BoyGeneral
BATTLE OF ALDIE : Captain Custer leads the charge. BATTLE OF TOM'S BROOK (Woodstock Races): Major General Custer salutes Confederate General Thomas Rosser, who was his classmate at West Point. This will be one of the greatest victories of the Union cavalry...
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A Sioux account
LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN Sioux yanktonai Thunder Bear's account A SIOUX ACCOUNT OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN source: Richard G. Hardorff, Indian Views of the Custer Fight , Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004, pages 87-90 The Yanktonai were camping at Old Fort Peck...
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The "genocide" myth
The historical imposture of the "genocide" myth and its consequences DEFAMATION AGAINST AMERICANS by Michael Medved, American syndicated talk radio host and author of 10 non-fiction books, including The Shadow Presidents (Times, 1979) and Right Turns...
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Black Kettle's hostages
Proving that the Blinns were held in Black Kettle's village BLACK KETTLE’S HOSTAGES By Dr Gregory Michno , historian and member of custerwest.org. Gregory Michno is the famous authors of several important books on Custer and the Frontier, including Lakota...
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Nevin Custer on Autie
CUSTER AS HIS BROTHER REMEMBERS HIM source: newspaper article from Topeka, Kansas, date of June 1910, Monroe Library In a big white farm house fronting the historic river Raisin, three miles north of Monroe, Mich., lives Nevin Custer, a typical Western...
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Lieutenant Godfrey on Reno
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...
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Custer vs Mosby in the Civil War
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...
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Black Kettle's men in the massacres
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...
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Buffalo Bill
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...