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Pillars of the Plains

by | Mar 29, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

In July 1875, photographer Orlando S. Goff captured a moment in the frontier life of a commanding officer’s wife at Fort Abraham Lincoln, titled “Group Listening to the Piano, Living Room of the Custer Home.” Hostess Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer (center, front) listens to piano music with the Wadsworth girls, 1st Lt. Winfield S. Edgerly, Capt. Tom Custer and Boston Custer. Libby’s famous husband,post commander Lt. Col. Geor


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