George Armstrong Custer, shown in an 1859 photograph as a 19-year-old West Point cadet in his summer furlough uniform, and in a later undated photo, will be the subject of a talk by biographer T.J ...

“Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America” by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf, 582 pages, $30) Dozens if not scores of books have been written about George Armstrong Custer ...

The Native American tribes had pet names for George Armstrong Custer. The Crow called him Child of the Morning Star, the Cheyenne labeled him Yellow Hair, but the Lakota Sioux referred to him as ...

Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer By Jeffry D. Wert Simon & Schuster, 462 pages, $27.50 Touched by Fire: The Life, Death and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer By ...

Object Details Author Hatch, Thom 1946-Subject Custer, George A (George Armstrong) 1839-1876 Contents The wrath of President Grant -- Glorious war -- Chasing shadows on the plains -- Death along the ...

General George Armstrong Custer's Trials. 2,207 Views Program ID: 429295-4 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Speech Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States First Aired: ...

George Armstrong Custer and much of the 7th Cavalry he commanded died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. Despite that, Custer was seen as a hero for nearly a century. Why that ...

DALLAS — A lock of blond hair that experts believe came from Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, the flamboyant officer who perished at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, ...

An auction house sold what it deemed a "substantial" portion of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s hair over the weekend. The blond lock went for $12,500 at auction on Saturday. Custer was ...

DALLAS — A lock of blond hair that experts believe came from Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, the flamboyant officer who perished at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, was sold at auction ...