What can you tell me about George Custer’s brother, Capt. Tom Custer? Channing Greene Dakota City, Iowa George Custer was the dominant personality in the Seventh Cavalry. He was an outstanding cavalry officer, possessed with dash and élan. He was flamboyant and the darling of the press. Everyone else, including his younger brother Tom, was part of the supporting cast. Tom enlisted in the Ohio infantry in 1861. When commissioned a second lieutenant in the Michigan cavalry in 1864, he was ass

June 2007
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Month of Atonement
- Crazy Spy Gadgets from CBS’s Wild Wild West
- Lone Star Pasts
- Truce
- Best Stories of the American West
- Hawks and Eagles
- California Desperadoes
- The Cowboy Girl
- Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
- Identity By Design
- One Hundred Years of Winchester Cartridge Boxes, 1856-1956
- From Errol Flynn to Owen Wister
- OUTRIDE THE DEVIL: A MORNING WITH DOC HOLLIDAY
- The Guns of Billy the Kid
- The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
- Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
- Lightning and Lace
- Cold Cache
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- Taos Founders Top Auction
- Preservation: Pony Express Rides On
- Loping Along the Guest Ranch Trail, Dude
- Song Catcher
- One Hell-Firin’ Minute of Smokin’ Action
- The Man Who Saved the West
- Cowboy Mounted Shooting
- Mining vs. Ranching
- The Rookie Rancher
- Louis L’Amour was supposedly creating a Western town, Shalako, similar to those he wrote about. Did he get it done?
- Juneau, Alaska
- Does Your Colt Pedigree?
- Which books on Wild Bill Hickok and Geronimo are the most accurate?
- Did a cowboy on horseback really rob a bank in New Mexico back in the 1930s?
- I’ve heard of a “Day of the Cowboy,” but is there a “Day of the Native American?”
- Most accounts of the O.K. Corral gunfight estimate that about 30 shots were fired over 25-30 seconds. Is that possible?
- What can you tell me about George Custer’s brother, Capt. Tom Custer?
- Where can I find a list of all the Westerns produced in the 1940s-50s?
- Collecting the West Roundup