Considering George Armstrong Custer died nearly 140 years ago, it’s remarkable that so many feel they know him today.
Some think of him as the dashing “boy general” who saved the day and likely the Union at Gettysburg. Some see a vainglorious tyrant who cared more for his hunting dogs than for his men. Some identify him purely from his “last stand” at Little Big Horn, as a martyr, glory-hunter, scapegoat, villain or hero.
Perhaps the familiarity comes from the rich visual history

June 2014
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- Bad Hand Mackenzie
- The Northern Plains to the Pacific Northwest
- Dead Is Better
- The Gang Slayer
- Treasures of the Old West
- A Man to Match the Land
- Did Doc Holliday Hunt Down Old Man Clanton?
- Custer Captured
- Beware of the Candied Cherries
- Mark Lee Gardner
- Happy 100th Birthday, Allan Houser
- A Wild Western Zine
- The Myths of a Border Warrior
- Life and Death of a Ranger
- Roaring Twenties Cowboy Noir
- An Open Wound
- Territorial Greed: Sins and Sinners of the Santa Fe Ring Revealed
- In the Tombstone Territory TV series, why are the characters given fake names when the show was based on real events?
- How did cowboys brush their teeth?
- When did billiards become popular in the Old West?
- Did Old West-style gunfights take place after 1910?
- Was Tom Horn really guilty of the murder for which he was hanged?
- The Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7
- The “Shoot Today, Kill Tomorrow” Gun
- Where Cody Lives
- Saving Luke Short’s Hotel
- Mountain Man Rediscovered
- Rough Drafts 6/14
- Robert J. Conley
- June 2014 Events