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Beyond Custer Hill

Beyond Custer Hill

by | Jun 1, 2004 | Inside History

June 25, 1876 George Armstrong Custer’s mind is racing with military strategies and tactics. As usual, he is reacting to a fluid battle situation (something at which he’s a genius). After ordering Maj. Marcus Reno to attack a large Indian village nestled in the Little...
Custer Battlefield Museum

Custer Battlefield Museum

by | May 1, 2004 | Uncategorized

After his victory at Washita, a buckskin-clad Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer felt undaunted in his role of frontier Indian fighter. The Seventh Cavalry’s charging call of “Garryowen,” however, would soon become a northward death march for Custer and his men. The...
Placing Blame

Placing Blame

by | May 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

Just after dawn on November 29, 1864, elements of the First and Third Colorado Regiments commanded by Col. John M. Chivington attacked a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped beside a dry streambed known as Big Sandy Creek. The ensuing...
One Continental Union

One Continental Union

by | May 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

It’s Monday, May 10, 1869, 2:40 p.m., Eastern time. For the first time, the entire nation is riveted to one event. “We have got done praying, the spike is about to be presented,” W.N. Shilling taps out in Morse code. Tens of thousands of people across the nation stand...
Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel

Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel

by | Apr 1, 2004 | Art, Guns and Culture

Buffalo Bill Cody founded the Irma Hotel in 1902, calling it “just the sweetest hotel that ever was.” Located in Cody, Wyoming, the town that the legendary showman helped establish in 1895, the Irma was named for his youngest daughter. Wanna-be performers often tried...