The Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25 and 26, 1876, lasted barely a full day, but it would become one of the most famous, controversial and mysterious military engagements in American history.

Eriksmoen: North Dakota colonel had Custer arrested for ignoring order Following the Civil War and his involvement in Mexico to stop the French from meddling in Mexico's internal affairs, Col. David ...

Disaster on the Little Big Horn River - General Custer and Seventeen Commissioned Officers Among the Killed. SALT LAKE, July 5. – A special correspondent of the Helena (Montana) Herald writes from ...

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...

The one officer of the 7th Cavalry who was most like Col. George Custer was also the officer most contemptuous of Custer. The majority of the adjectives and phrases that I found describing Frederick ...

Custer's Last Stand took place at the Little Bighorn River, where he led over two hundred soldiers into battle against thousands of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. From ...

Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time—according to the history books. Schoolboys are told ...

In 1872, Lt. Col. George Custer, Gen. Phil Sheridan, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia and “Buffalo Bill” Cody met in Nebraska for a most important meeting/big game hunt. Omaha author Jeff Barnes will ...

Few figures in American history are as divisive as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. He's been hailed as a hero and martyr by some, and vilified as a brash fool who got what he deserved at ...