The Real Custer (72 page)

13
.
    
EBC to Rebecca Richmond, December 6, 1866, in “Mrs. General Custer at Fort Riley, 1866,” Minnie Dubbs Millbrook, ed.,
Kansas Historical Quarterly
40, no. 1, Spring 1974, 63–71.

14
.
    
Ibid., note number 35.

15
.
    
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
, December 22, 1866, 2.

16
.
    
See Minnie Dubbs Millbrook, “Big Game Hunting with the Custers, 1869–1870,”
Kansas Historical Quarterly
, Winter 1975, 429.

17
.
    
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the Winter of 1871-72
, 161. This book is based on stories published in the
New York Herald
. See also the account in “A Famous Buffalo Hunt,”
Omaha Sunday Bee
, November 29, 1908.

18
.
    
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the Winter of 1871-72
, 157.

19
.
    
Quoted in W. L. Holloway,
Wild Life on the Plains and the Horrors of Indian Warfare
(St. Louis: Excelsior Publishing, 1891) 342.

20
.
    
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the Winter of 1871-72
, 161.

21
.
    
Buffalo Bill quoted in Holloway,
Wild Life on the Plains and the Horrors of Indian Warfare
, 343–44.

22
.
    
“The Imperial Buffalo Hunter,”
New York Herald
, January 16, 1872, 7.

23
.
    
“A Rare Old Beast,”
Leavenworth Weekly Times
, January 18, 1872, 1.

24
.
    
Quoted in Holloway,
Wild Life on the Plains and the Horrors of Indian Warfare
, 342.

25
.
    
Buffalo Bill,
True Tales of the Plains
(New York: Cupples and Leon, 1908), 172–73.

26
.
    
New York Herald
, January 16, 1872, 7.

27
.
    
Buffalo Bill,
True Tales of the Plains
, 174–75.

28
.
    
“A Royal Buffalo Hunt,”
Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society
, vol. 10,
1907-1908
, George W. Martin, ed. (Topeka: State Printing Office, 1908), 576–77.

29
.
    
Ibid., 577.

30
.
    
Ibid.

31
.
    
Ibid., 578.

32
.
    
Ibid., 579.

33
.
    
EBC diary entry of February 5, 1873, in Merington,
The Custer Story
, 247.

34
.
    
“A Grand-Duke's Book on America,”
Appleton's Journal
, Jaunary 10, 1874, 55.

35
.
    
Buffalo Bill,
True Tales of the Plains
, 175–76.

CHAPTER 25

1
.
      
For the official report, see D. S. Stanley,
Yellowstone Expedition of 1873
(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874).

2
.
      
“An Outrage,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 23, 1873.

3
.
      
E. P. Alexander, “Lee at Appomattox,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
, vol. 5, Peter Cozzens, ed. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 927.

4
.
      
Quoted in Stephen E. Ambrose,
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), 360.

5
.
      
“Custer and Rosser,”
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
, December 15, 1875, 3. See also Professor Phelps's short biography of Custer in “Notes on the Yellowstone XIII,”
National Teacher's Monthly
, November 1875, 16–19.

6
.
      
Larned in George Frederick Howe, “Expedition to the Yellowstone River in 1873: Letters of a Young Cavalry Officer,”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
, December 1952, 526.

7
.
      
Letter of June 28, 1873, in David S. Stanley,
Personal Memoirs of Major-General D. S. Stanley, USA
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917), 239.

8
.
      
GAC to EBC, June 1873, in Marguerite Merington, ed.,
The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer and His Wife Elizabeth
(New York: Devin-Adair, 1950), 251–52.

9
.
      
Boston Daily Globe
, August 19, 1873, 1. The article noted “the officers take Jamaica ginger as a substitute, while the men prefer pain killer.”

10
.
    
GAC to EBC, June 1873, in Merington,
The Custer Story
, 252.

11
.
    
Larned diary, June 29, 1873, USMA Archives.

12
.
    
Ibid.

13
.
    
Stanley,
Personal Memoirs of Major-General D. S. Stanley
, 240.

14
.
    
Dubuque Herald
, August 10, 1873, 1.

15
.
    
Boston Daily Globe
, August 19, 1873, 1.

16
.
    
Stanley,
Personal Memoirs of Major-General D. S. Stanley
, 241.

17
.
    
See M. John Lubetkin,
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), 135ff.

18
.
    
“The Yellowstone Country,”
Boston Daily Globe
, October 16, 1873.

19
.
    
For Custer's account, see George A. Custer, “Battling with the Sioux on the Yellowstone,”
Galaxy
, July 1876, 91–102.

20
.
    
Larned in Howe, “Expedition to the Yellowstone River in 1873,” 532.

21
.
    
Custer, “Battling with the Sioux on the Yellowstone,” 102.

22
.
    
“The Yellowstone Expedition,”
Ohio Democrat
, August 29, 1873.

23
.
    
Manuscript in Godfrey Papers, USMA Special Collections.

24
.
    
Rosser to EBC, in Merington,
The Custer Story
, 261.

25
.
    
Stanley's official report, 6. See also an account of the battle in the
Janesville (WI) Gazette
, August 25, 1873, 1.

26
.
    
Custer AAR August 15, 1873, reprinted in
Boots and Saddles
. Also see Major E. A. Garlington, “The Seventh Regiment of Cavalry: The Army of the United States” in
Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief
, Theo F. Rodenbough and William L. Haskin, eds. (New York: Maynard, Merrill, 1896), 256–57.

27
.
    
“The Yellowstone Country,”
Boston Daily Globe
, October 16, 1873.

28
.
    
Stanley's dispatch in
Daily New Mexican
, September 11, 1873.

29
.
    
“Home Again,”
Bismarck Tribune
, September 24, 1873, 1.

30
.
    
Joseph Henry Taylor,
Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains
(Bismarck: J. H. Taylor, 1897), 159.

CHAPTER 26

1
.
      
“Black Hills,”
Bismarck Tribune
, August 26, 1874, 1.

2
.
      
The Army also agreed to close three forts along the Powder River, abandoning the Bozeman Trail. See Charles Francis Roe, “Custer's Last Battle,” a monograph published by the National Highways Association, New York City (1927), 1.

3
.
      
“Custer Interviewed,”
Bismarck Tribune
, September 2, 1874, 1.

4
.
      
Sheridan to Sherman, March 25, 1875. Reprinted in the
Indianapolis Journal
, March 27, 1875, 1.

5
.
      
Sherman quoted in the
Anglo-American Times
, June 25, 1874, 12.

6
.
      
Reprinted as “Gen. Custer's Military Expedition to the Black Hills,”
Ohio Democrat
, August 21, 1874, 1.

7
.
      
Reprinted as “Custer's Anabasis,”
Troy (IL) Weekly Bulletin
, July 23, 1874.

8
.
      
“Indians! Why Custer Follows the Red Man's Track,”
Bismarck Tribune
, June 3, 1874, 1.

9
.
      
“Expedition Rumors,”
The Bismarck Tribune
, August 19, 1874, 1.

10
.
    
“El Dorado,”
Bismarck Tribune
, August 19, 1874, 1–2; and Forsythe's account in “Scenes and Incidents of the Black Hills Expedition,”
Ohio Democrat
, September 18, 1874, 1.

11
.
    
“Custer's Raid to the Black Hills,”
Anglo-American Times
, July 11, 1874, 6.

12
.
    
Ibid.

13
.
    
“Custer's Expedition to the Black Hills,”
Anglo-American Times
, August 22, 1874, 10.

14
.
    
“Custer's Gulch,”
Bismarck Tribune
, August 26, 1874, 2.

15
.
    
“Custer Interviewed,”
Bismarck Tribune
, September 2, 1874, 1.

16
.
    
“Custer's Counsel,”
Burlington Hawkeye
, September 12, 1874, 1.

17
.
    
Hamilton Examiner
, September 24, 1874, 2.

18
.
    
On Sioux City, see “Black Hills,”
Cambridge City (IN) Tribune
, March 25, 1875, 1.

19
.
    
Ibid.

20
.
    
“Black Hills,”
Palo Alto (IA) Pilot
, April 1, 1875, 1.

21
.
    
“The Black Hills,”
Burlington Hawkeye
, September 3, 1874, 3.

22
.
    
“Black Hills,”
Bismarck Tribune
, August 26, 1874, 1.

23
.
    
Sheridan's letter was reprinted in “The Black Hills,”
New York Times,
March 27, 1875, 2.

24
.
    
“Sheridan's Order,”
Boston Daily Globe
, September 7, 1874, 4.

25
.
    
“Another Raid on the Red Man,”
Boston Daily Globe
, October 23, 1874, 4.

26
.
    
“Black Hills,”
Bismarck Tribune
, 1.

27
.
    
Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel
, March 13, 1875.

28
.
    
After 1908, the whole area became part of Custer National Forest.

29
.
    
“Custer's Gulch,”
Bismarck Tribune
, August 26, 1874, 2.

30
.
    
Reprinted in “General Custer on the Sioux Indian Problem,”
Worthington (MN) Advance
, June 4, 1875, 1.

31
.
    
“The Black Hills,”
Burlington Hawkeye
, September 3, 1874, 3.

32
.
    
Quoted in the
Anglo-American Times
, June 12, 1875.

33
.
    
See John D. McDermott, “The Military Problem and the Black Hills, 1874–1875,”
South Dakota History
, Fall/Winter 2001, 188–210.

34
.
    
Quoted in the
Anglo-American Times
, June 12, 1875.