This weekend marks the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn—also known as ‘Custer’s Last Stand’—a chapter in U.S. history that some historians are arguing needs a rewrite. The story ...

By 1871, the Northern Pacific Railroad reached Fargo, and Thomas Rosser, George Custer's roommate at West Point, supervised a survey party west of Fargo for the NP. In the summer of 1872, Rosser ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward Custer, 7th US Cavalry. Custer, the younger brother of General George Armstrong Custer, was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans were in shock in early July 1876. It wasn’t supposed to have been that way. It was the country’s centennial, after all, a time for a national party. Instead, stunning news came from the ...