Custer Survivor

CUSTER SURVIVOR: Sergeant August Finckle, Company C, 7th Cavalry, died at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876—or didn’t, if his real name was Frank Finkel and he falsified his birthplace and age when he enlisted in 1872. Official histories list Finckle as K.I.A. (killed in action), but Frank Finkel lived to the ripe old age of 76, dying in 1930. He finally broke his silence in 1920 while pitching horseshoes with friends in Dayton, Washington, and told how he came to survive Custer’s Las