Custer's last stand

Custer's last stand

Colonel George Custer's decisive defeat by the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Modern historians approach Custer's last stand much differently than those of the early 20th century.
See also: last, stand
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See also:
  • go down in defeat
  • go down to defeat
  • creamed
  • shellacking
  • since Hitler was a corporal
  • spy out the land
  • see
  • see how the wind blows
  • see which way the wind is blowing
  • see, etc. how the land lies
References in periodicals archive
Somehow, and I don't remember how, around 1978 I acquired a copy of Keep the Last Bullet for Yourself The True Story of Custer's Last Stand, by Thomas B.
Haunted by Pehin Hanska
"Is the guy killed first at Custer's Last Stand 'ahead' or 'behind' the others?" asks Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corp., a consultancy that follows the Internet backbone market.
Multi-Gigabit IP Backbones Ramp Up, But Will Revenues Rise To Match?
The famous Anheuser-Busch painting of "Custer's Last Stand" is flawed in this detail, as it shows Custer with a saber in his hand, a weapon he did not have available, Utley, 102.
Light, Lean, and Lethal
Factfile: We began and ended our trip in Denver but there are many other options include heading into Montana along Highway 212 to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument marking General Custer's last stand and on to northwestern Wyoming's Yello wstone National Park.
States of delight
But the high point is the Custer's Last Stand Reenactment, a historical pageant that takes place in a field 6 miles west of town.
Last stands at Little Bighorn
You can almost date it to 1876, the year of Custer's last stand and the centennial of United States independence.
Mythmaking in the promised land; an interview with Joel Kovel
But each work is informed by a sense of the West as a preeminent pop domain, not merely in retrospect, but even as the events in question were played out: "Custer's Last Stand" passed into pulp fiction almost before the blood was dry, and Jesse James emerged as a pop hero--seen as an aristocrat of violence, the subject of star-struck biographies and dime novels--even before his own assassination.
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
Organized Native American opposition to the extra-legal expropriation of the area began at Custer's last Stand in June 1876.
Kevin Costner's gold rush
Born and educated in Kansas, Henry Allen was a journalist and writer for MGM in Hollywood before beginning his career as a novelist with No Survivors (1950), by "Will Henry," a widely admired account of Custer's last stand. Over fifty books have followed, all by either Henry or "Clay Fisher"; most are, at least in part, historical.
Allen, Henry W. (Will Henry, Clay Fisher) (1912- )
His drawings closely and faithfully mimic their own artistic depictions of the epic event and tell the story of Custer's Last Stand so clearly and concisely that graphic novelists, filmmakers, and historians would be envious.
Custer's Last Battle
To commemorate the Baffle of the Little Big Horn, David Yellowhorse has created the US 7th Cavalry Custer's Last Stand Gun and Knife Set, a Limited Edition.
Yellowhorse collectibles
corn liquor, Custer's last stand in art, military medicine, Native American medicine, scalp bounty, and smallpox).
The encyclopedia of North American Indian wars, 1607-1890; a political, social, and military history; 3v
Then on to the Little Big Horn - Custer's Last Stand. Then on to the famous town of Deadwood, then to Cody.
Wild trip to Buffalo Bill's town; Star letter
Ed's father was born two years before Custer's Last Stand, and his grandfather Patrick McHugh was a saloonkeeper in Deadwood, South Dakota at the height of the gold mining boom in the late 1870's and 1880's.
Edward T. McHugh
Thanks to Paul Culliton for clarifying and illuminating the past, with his feature Custer's Last Stand (Vol.
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