Glen Swanson, sculptor and avid Custeriana collector, has created a sculpture of Custer as he appeared on the eve of his Last Stand on the Little Bighorn.
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Letter from Wild West – June 2010
One-hundred thirty-four years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, historians continue to debate just who was to blame for the massacre of the 7th Cavalry. Custer? Reno? Benteen? How about the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne?
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Interview: James Donovan / George Custer Expert
James Donovan, author and George Custer expert, covers new ground in the story of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn in his new book A Terrible Glory.
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Is Custer The Most Misunderstood Figure in American History?
A reevaluation of George Armstrong Custer suggests he was actually left in the lurch by his subordinates at the infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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George Armstrong Custer: Changing Views of an American Legend
Although he was already a popular figure in his own time, the disaster at the Little Bighorn forever secured his place in the American mind and mythology.
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Frederick W. Benteen
Though he displayed daring and audacity during his military career, Benteen would probably not be remembered today if not for his supporting role at the Little Bighorn more than 125 years ago.
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The Last Stand of Crazy Horse
After helping his people win the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the daring Oglala leader fought thesoldiers again at Slim Buttes in September 1876 and the Wolf Mountains in January 1877 before finally surrendering at Camp Robinson that May.
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Sitting Bull and the Mounties
After the Little Bighorn and other 1876 confrontations with the U.S. Army, the great Hunkpapa Sioux Leader took his people north into Canada, where James Walsh and other scarlet-clad lawmen insisted on enforcing the white mother’s laws.
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Buffalo Bill’s Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek
Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken ‘the first scalp for Custer!’ And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage.
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The Fatal Fetterman Fight
Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army’s greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.