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The duel: Weir vs Benteen after the battle
After Custer's Last Stand, Captain Weir (who had tried to support Custer) and Captain Benteen (who had betrayed him) hated each other almost to death. BETRAYAL MEANT "BLOOD" source: Larry Sklenar (from the US Department of Defense), To Hell With Honor,...
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History under attack
custerwest.org new video: Hollywood HOLLYWOOD vs HISTORY Many historians, the Little Big Horn Associates Newsletter and a lot of people find the stories of Indian captivities boring. All of them praise the Indian chiefs who commited these crimes. Scarcely...
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Custer's best man: Jacob Greene
The story of Custer's Adjudant General during the Civil War, Jacob L. Greene CUSTER'S BEST MAN source: David Neville, " Custer's Best Man: Brevet Lt. Col. Jacob Lyman Greene ". Military Images. May/Jun 2004. He served faithfully beside his flamboyant...
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US soldier
“The more I see of movement here (Little Bighorn battlefield), the more I have admiration for Custer, and I am satisfied his like will not be found very soon again.” US General-in-chief - Lt General Nelson A. Miles American officers at Custer Grave, West...
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1'600 months
custerwest's new video 1'600 For the record: Benteen and Reno apologists constantly refer to the 1879 Reno Court of Inquiry as the extensive investigation on the Little Bighorn. But facts tell us a different story. The RCOI was asked by Major Reno three...
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Reliving the Last Stand
RETELLING HISTORY June 25, 2001, Peter Harriman , Argus Leader. Pictures: Custer Clan MONTANA - On hills fading from green to tan under a hot, white June sun, icons of history from the 7th Cavalry and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations race again toward...
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CTW#5
CUSTER TRUTH WATCH report Custer Truth to custerwest.org Taking a Stand works Director Yves Simoneau blows off American Indian myths in "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" (2007). One of the best scenes ever made in movies on the Indian wars. GENERAL MILES...
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The peaceful massacres of Black Kettle
Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle's behavior before the Washita campaign TO (PEACEFULLY) CLEAN OUT THE COUNTRY "The bands of Black Kettle, Little Raven and Satanta are well known to us, and are the same that have been along the Smoky Hills the past five years,...
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New video: "Libbie"
custerwest's new video LIBBIE Custer's enemies and the US army waited until her death to effectively destroy her husband's reputation. No surprise here: during her lifetime, Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon Custer collected more accurate facts on Little Bighorn...
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Charles Varnum
Lt Varnum's grave in San Francisco CUSTER'S SCOUT Charles Albert Varnum (New York, June 21, 1849 - San Francisco, February 26, 1936) was a career United States Army officer who graduated from the Academy of West Point in 1872. He was most noted as the...
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Indians desecrating graves at Custer battlefield!
Custer buffs have always been kind with today's American Indians who were seen as peaceful "descendants of victims of conquest" and deserved recognition. The truth is: since the 1970s, the Indians are at war with the USA. They will stop at nothing to...
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new video + Tom's forgotten son
custerwest video: tribute to Tom Custer + the Story of Tommy C. Custer, Tom Custer's son. ANOTHER CUSTER "This young man, however, does not appear to be the only child supposedly fathered by Tom. Northwestern Ohio is rife with stories of Tom's sexual...
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Hunterstown, 1863-2008
July 2, 2008: General Custer and his savior, Bugler Norville Churchill, are honored at Hunterstown Battlefield, PA CUSTER'S HUNTERSTOWN sources: Hunterstown 1863 (Hunterstown Historical society ), Scott Mingus. Art: Jared Frederick, http://www.historymatters.biz...
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Silence in court
Asking legitimate questions during the Reno Court of Inquiry (the only inquiry on the Little Bighorn ever) was forbidden by the army QUESTIONS FORBIDDEN source: Athur Unger, The ABCs of Custer's Last Stand, Upton And Sons, 2004, page 218 When Recorder...
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more Custeriana
Read great historical articles and watch videos of custerwest's allies in the ongoing war to spread and defend historical facts KEOGH & CUSTER MYLESKEOGH.ORG (website founded by an Irish specialist of the legendary Captain): The Novels of Charles Lever...
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High Treason, a chronology
"The entire Custer story has been surrounded in mystery and I recall an elderly Colonel telling me once of a story that used to circulate in army circles that there were men who knew an unpublished truth about the story, but who were pledged never to...
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CTW#6
Because of bad, bad Whiteys, we have missed all the fun of living with American Indian values PERFECT HARMONY! source: University of Utah, 2006 sorry, sorry to every American Indian for ending such noble customs... Along with the Mayas or the Aztecs,...
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Custeriana!
George Armstrong Custer stands as the most famous American officer of all times CUSTER STILL STANDS Counties are named in Custer's honor in seven states: Colorado , Montana , Nebraska , Oklahoma, South Dakota, Idaho and Minnesota . There are also the...
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Cav
Those sabers that built America WAIT FOR THE CAV TO COME "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." George S. Patton "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge....
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A Sioux chief on Indian casualties
Sioux chief Horned Horse on the last struggle at Little Bighorn A SIOUX CHIEF ON INDIAN CASUALTIES source: John F. Finerty, Warpath and Bivouac: The Bighorn and Yellowstone Expedition, Lakeside Press, 1955, page 210. Artworks: Howard Terpning "Hemmed...
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140 years ago: the battle of the Washita
THE BATTLE OF THE WASHITA: 140 YEARS AGO November 27, 1868 - November 27, 2008 WAR ON TERROR IN OKLAHOMA A grateful Garry Owen to the heroes who fought and died at Washita to destroy the Cheyenne terror cell. Garry Owen to Major Joel Elliott and his 16...
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Take this survey
I am doing a research project on how the public perception of General Custer has changed over time. I would very much appreciate your answering a few questions about your own interest in and perception of Custer. I will keep all of your responses confidential....
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The pledge
THE PLEDGE Ronald Reagan on the Little Bighorn cover-up: "The entire Custer story has been surrounded in mystery and I recall an elderly Colonel telling me once of a story that used to circulate in army circles that there were men who knew an unpublished...
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Custer's first Indian campaign
The first campaign of the Seventh Cavalry against the Indians CUSTER'S CAMPAIGN IN 1867 (THE HANCOCK EXPEDITION IN KANSAS) sources: Kansas Historical Quaterly, Summer, 1970 (Vol. 36, No. 2), pages 113-148, Kansas Collection (...) The expedition to the...
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Custer Men
CUSTER MEN The famous drink was invented by one of Custer's men. INVENTING THE MARTINI source: Nation's Restaurant News, Sept 18, 1989 Sgt. Martinez, a member of the Seventh Cavalry, missed Custer's Last Stand and was later assigned to Fort McHenry in...