One man is directly related to two popular trivia questions: "Name the only survivor of Col. George Armstrong Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn" and "During the time of Custer, ...

Col. Custer's bandmaster at Fort Abraham Lincoln later became one of America's most celebrated composers of the 19th century. Felix Vinatieri was an extraordinary violin and coronet musician who ...

On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer led the 7th Cavalry under his command on an attack against an Indian encampment at Little Big Horn. The incident is now commonly known as ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

Gen. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry fights Sioux Indians at Fort Larned in an 1867 edition of Harpers Weekly. The burning of an Indian village led to the deaths a day later of three station ...

Say the name "George Armstrong Custer" and immediately visions usually come to mind of hordes of Native American warriors circling an outnumbered band of desperate U.S. 7th Cavalry troopers. Custer, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward ...

During a 2003 visit to South Dakota, my wife and I drove to the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota in search of the Wounded Knee Memorial. There, nestled on a small hill in one of the ...

WASHINGTON — Historical accounts of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn report that many of Gen. George Custer’s 7th Cavalry soldiers shot themselves to avoid being killed by Native American ...