How The New York Herald Scooped the U.S. Army on Custer

Custer stories never seem to die out. But even if Custer had never been a part of this story, it would be a good one, involving among other things a record-making trip by a river steamer down 700 miles of mostly uncharted Western waters, the longest telegram ever sent, a denial by the U.S. Army that Custer had been defeated by the Sioux and one of the greatest newspaper scoops in journalistic history. It began with a notebook, written by Mark Kellogg, a reporter from the Bismarck Tribune who