Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...

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 ...

Caption title: Custer's last battle, by Edward S. Godfrey. "Reprinted, 1921, from The Century Magazine [January, 1892], for the celebration of the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of the Battle." ...

The name George Custer is etched in the annals of U.S. and Montana history for the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Less well-known is that Custer may have been the man who won the Civil War. The ...

I just read the letter in the May 25 Forum written by Tom Berger. Berger said 130 years ago brevet Major Gen. George A Custer and 760 officers and men started out for Montana to bring back 800 hostile ...

General George Custer was a U.S. cavalry officer best known for leading troops into the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he met his fate. Here's how one of his rare swords found itself in the hands ...