Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1876
Biography
George Armstrong Custer; b. Dec. 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio; d. June 25, 1876 at Little Bighorn River, Montana Territory; U.S. cavalry officer; graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., 1861; served in the Civil War, became brigadier general; killed at Battle of Little Bighorn.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Robert J. Ege book drafts
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230218163]
Identifier: MSS 1705
Scope and Contents
Typewritten book drafts with handwritten corrections. The materials are early versions later published. "Curse not his Curls" is about George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. "Strike Them Hard" is about a massacre of Piegan Indians on the Marias River on 23 Jan. 1870. These items were submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.
Dates:
1970-1974
Robert Ellison Western photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 115
Scope and Contents
Collection includes two hundred and thirty photographs, including oversize images, one tintype, and a Brady photograph, with images of the oil industry and oil fields, landscapes of the West, G. A. Custer, and Ellison family and friends; stereographs of Indian wars, Wyoming; various western personalities and places; and postcards. Also includes four photographs and a postcard of Edward Copely and family. Also a picture of the printing shop at the "Old Nez Pierce Mission", and a postcard of...
Dates:
approximately 1880-1949
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- Agricultural exhibitions -- Wyoming 1
- California 1
- Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.) 1
- Cheyenne Indians 1
- Colorado 1
- Drafts (Documents) 1
- Dull Knife Battle, Wyo., 1876 1
- Fort Laramie (Wyo. : Fort) 1
- Fort Reno (Wyo.) 1
- Gros Ventre Slide Geological Area (Wyo.) 1
- Idaho 1
- Images 1
- Independence Rock (Wyo.) 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 1
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.) 1
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 1
- Manitou Springs (Colo.) 1
- Mexico 1
- Montana 1
- Montana -- History 1
- Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail 1
- New Mexico 1
- Oil industries 1
- Photographs 1
- Piegan Indians -- History 1
- Postcards 1
- Publications 1
- Salt Lake City (Utah) 1
- Shaanxi Sheng (China) 1
- South Dakota 1
- Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho) 1
- Texas 1
- Utah 1
- Virginia City (Mont.) 1
- Wyoming 1
- Yellowstone National Park 1
- Zuni Indian Reservation (N.M.) 1 + ∧ less
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