Male : Cavalry commander in the American West. Killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June 1876 when the Sioux overhwhelmed 264 cavalrymen. Following his death his wife Elizabeth (1842-1933) wrote books about their life together

Nationality : American Place of Birth : New Rumley, Ohio

Date of Birth : 1839 Date of Death : 1876 Age : 37

Education : Westpoint 1861

My Life on the Plains, or Personal Experiences with the Indians (1874 Sheldon NY)
(1952 Lakeside Press, Chicago)

READING
1876-1900
Frederick Whittaker : The Complete Life of General George Armstrong Custer (1876 Sheldon)
Elizabeth B Custer : Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer
(1885 Harper, NY)
Elizabeth B Custer : Tenting on the Plains (1887 Charles L Webster)
Elizabeth B Custer : Following the Guidon (1890 Harper)

1901-1950
E A Brininstool : A Trooper with Custer (1925 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co)
Col. W A Graham : The Story of the Little Big Horn (1926 Century)
Frazier Hunt : Custer - The Last of the Cavaliers (1928 Cosmopolitan)
Frederic F Van de Water : Glory-Hunter - A Life of General George Armstrong Custer
(1934 Bobbs-Merrill)
Fred Dustin : The Custer Tragedy (1939 PP, US) - Pamphlet
Frazier & Robert Hunt : I Fought with Custer - The Story of Sgt. Windolf (1947 Scribner)
Marguerite Merington : The Custer Story (1950 Devin-Adair)

1951-1960
Quentin Reynolds : Custer's Last Stand (1951 Random House)
Charles Kuhlman : Legend into History - The Custer Mystery (1951 Stackpole)
E A Brininstool : I Fought with Custer (1952 Stackpole)
Col. W A Graham : The Custer Myth - A Source Book of Custeriana (1953 Bonanza)
Edgar I Stewart : Custer's Luck (1955 Oklahoma UP)
Gen. E S Godfrey : The Field Diary of Liut. Edward Settle Godfrey at the Battle
of the Little Big Horn (1957 Champoeg Press) - 1000
Charles Kuhlman : Did Custer Disobey Orders at the Battle of the Little Big Horn ?
(1957 Stackpole)
Jay Monaghan : The Life of General George Armstrong Custer (1959 Little Brown)
Lauran Paine : The General Custer Story (1960 Foulsham)

1961-1970
Lawrence Frost : The Custer Album - A Pictorial Biography of General George Armstrong Custer
(1964 Superior Publ Co)
D H Miller : Custer's Fall - The Indian Side of the Story (1965 Corgi Pb)
Mari Sandoz : Battle of the Little Big Horn (1966 Lippincott)
D A Kinsley : Favor the Bold Custer - The Civil War Years (1967 Holt Rinehart)
Lawrence Frost : The Court-Martial of General George Armstrong Custer (1968 Oklahoma UP)
Michael J Koury : Diaries of the Little Big Horn (1970 Old Army Press)

1971-1980
Dr Thomas B Marquis : Custer on the Little Big Horn (1971 End-Kian Publ)
Dr Thomas B Marquis : Wooden Leg - A Warrior who Fought with Custer (1971 Nebraska UP)
C F Bates & C F Roe : Custer Engages the Hostiles (1972 Old Army Press)
Donald Jackson : Custer's Gold (1972 Nebraska UP)
Bruce A Rosenberg : Custer and the Epic of Defeat (1974 Pennsylvania State UP)
Stephen E Ambrose : Crazy Horse and Custer (1975)
Brian W Dippie : Custer's Last Stand - The Anatomy of a Modern Myth (1976 Montana UP)
(Ed) Kenneth M Hammer : Custer in '76 - Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight
(1976 Brigham Young UP)
Dr Thomas B Marquis : Keep the Last Bullet for Yourself (1976 Two Continents Press NY)
Michael Anglo : Custer, Man and Myth (1976 Jupiter Books)
Robert M Utley : Life's in Custer's Cavalry - Diaries and Letters of Albert & Jennie Barnitz 1867-8
(1977 Yale UP)

1981-1990
Gregory J W Urwin : Custer Victorious - The Civil War Battles of General george Armstrong Custer
(1983 Blue & Grey Press)
D D Scott & R A Fox : Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle (1987 Nebraska UP)
Robert M Utley : Cavalier in Buckskin - George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier
(1988 Oklahoma UP)
Roger Darling : A Sad and Terrible Blunder - Generals terry & Custer on the Little
Big Horn - New Discoveries (1990 Western Press)

Since 1991
John Gray : Custer's Last Campaign (1991 Nebraska UP)
E R Reedstrom : Custer's 7th Cavalry (1992 Sterling Pb)
Richard A Fox : Archaeology, History and Custer's Last Battle (1993 Oklahoma UP)
James Welch & Paul Stekler : Killing Custer - The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the
Fate of the Sioux Indians (1994 W W Norton)
Peter Panzeri : Little Big Horn (1995 Osprey Pb)
Dale T Schoenberger : The End of Custer (1996 Hancock House Pb)
(Ed) W O Taylor & G Martin : With Custer on the Little Big Horn (1996 Viking)
Louise Barnett : Touched by Fire - The Life and Death of Custer (1996 Holt)
Thom Hatch : Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn - An Encyclopaedia (1997 McFarland)
Kurt Hamilton Cox : Custer and His Commands - from West Point to Little Big Horn
(1999 Greenhill Books)
Jeremy Poolman : A Wounded Thing must Hide - In Search of Libbie Custer
(2002 Bloomsbury £16.99)