In July 1874, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led a thousand-man expedition into the Black Hills, in present-day South Dakota. He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post ...

The man who started it all was a career soldier named George Armstrong Custer. Custer had already gained a reputation for getting into trouble. He graduated from West Point last in his class.

There are plenty of comprehensive biographies of George Armstrong Custer, but thoroughness wasn’t Larry McMurtry’s aim when he set out to write this brief treatment. “I was attracted to the ...

1977 Movie"If General Custer survived the Battle of Little Big Horn, would the court find him a hero or fool?" ...

He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.