“Our house at Fort Lincoln, Dakota” is a notation that many may not pay much attention to, other than as an identification of a depicted location. It was written by Gen. George A. Custer, on the verso of his own portrait of him and the 7th Cavalry officers under his command, along with their wives and  some infantrymen, which sold at Swann Galleries in New York City on February 11 for a $20,000 bid. Auctioned off as part of the signed historical photographs from the Jerome Shochet Collec


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