Major Marcus Reno's failure to press his attack on the south end of the Lakota / Cheyenne village and his flight to the timber along the river after a single casualty have been cited as a causal factor in the destruction of Custer's battalion, as has Captain Frederick Benteen's allegedly tardy arrival on the field and the failure of the two officers ' combined forces to move toward the relief of Custer.

Custer's announcement triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush.

By the time of Custer's expedition to the Black Hills in 1874, the level of conflict and tension between the U. S. and many of the Plains Indians tribes ( including the Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne ) had become exceedingly high.

Colonel ) George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry in 1874, which made the first public discovery of gold in the Black Hills.

Originally known as Reno Junction ( descendants of Major Reno from Custer's troop resided in the area ), the town was renamed " Wright " after the owner of the Long Branch Bar, Dale Wright, who agreed to sell land to Atlantic Richfield Corporation, the developer of the Black Thunder Mine, who planned to build the town to accommodate the work force that would be hired to operate the mine.

Custer's announcement of gold in the Black Hills triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush.

Although Sitting Bull did not attack Custer's expedition in 1874, the US government was increasingly pressured to open the Black Hills to mining and settlement.

Grant received leave to travel from Custer's unit in the Black Hills of South Dakota to Washington, D. C. for her birth.

During Custer's 1874 Black Hills Expedition, he carried unaccompanied the dispatches to Fort Laramie that made the discovery of gold public.

The Newton-Jenney expedition was established in response to the Black Hills Gold Rush which had been escalated the previous year by General George Armstrong Custer's expedition into the Black Hills.

The expedition confirmed Custer's claims of gold, and prompted an increase of miners in the Black Hills region, which in turn antagonized events leading to the Great Sioux War of 1876-77.

They reviewed Terry's plan calling for Custer's regiment to proceed south along the Rosebud, while Terry and Gibbon's united forces would move in a westerly direction toward the Bighorn and Little Bighorn rivers.

Custer's scouts warned him about the size of the village, with scout Mitch Bouyer reportedly saying, " General, I have been with these Indians for 30 years, and this is the largest village I have ever heard of.

Established in 1881, it was named for the General Custer Mine, where gold was discovered five years earlier ( shortly after Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in eastern Montana ).

Custer's West Point class ( originally the Class of 1862 ) was graduated a year early to meet the Army's pressing need for trained officers.

He was rescued by Norville Churchill of the 1st Michigan Cavalry, who galloped up, shot Custer's nearest assailant, and allowed Custer to mount behind him for a dash to safety.

Custer was present at the surrender at Appomattox Court House and the table upon which the surrender was signed was presented to him as a gift for his wife by General Sheridan, who included a note to her praising Custer's gallantry.

The warriors closed in for the final attack and killed every man in Custer's command.

One year later, Custer's remains and those of many of his officers were recovered and sent back east for reinterment in more formal burials.

Annual re-enactments are held of Custer's 7th Cavalry's leaving for the Little Bighorn.

Crow Agency is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States and is near the actual location for the Little Bighorn National Monument and re-enactment known as Custer's Last Stand.

The campaign proved inconclusive but resulted in Custer's court martial and suspension from the Army for one year — in part — for returning to Fort Riley to see his wife without permission.

Custer's Revenge ( also known as Westward Ho and The White Man Came ) is a controversial video game made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique, a company that produced a number of adult video game titles for the system.

It sold the rights to its games to Playaround, which continued to market Custer's Revenge as Westward Ho for a time.

In 2008, the University of Calgary Tom Keenan professor cited " the hideous Custer's Revenge game ", 26 years after its release, in an op-ed piece about current video game violence issues for the Calgary Herald.

In the South Park episode " You're Getting Old " ( season 15 ), an arcade machine for Custer's Revenge appears in the background during Randy's musical performance at the bowling alley.

Some of the relatively inexperienced South Carolina Confederate infantry mistook a Union shift in position for a retreat and charged after them, only to run into Custer's men, who captured eighty Confederates.

* Custer's Official Report for the Battle of Gettysburg

Between November 8 and 10, the Nez Perce left Fort Buford for Custer's post command at the time of his death ; Fort Abraham Lincoln across the Missouri River from Bismark in the Dakota Territory.

In late 2006 he starred as Edward Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre ( broadcast in the United States on PBS in early 2007 ) and The Wild West in February 2007 for the BBC in which he played General George Armstrong Custer in Custer's Last Stand.

* October 13-Mystique releases the Custer's Revenge adult video game for the Atari 2600 home console.

" After George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sherman wrote that " hostile savages like Sitting Bull and his band of outlaw Sioux ... must feel the superior power of the Government.

He received the note, he read it, he thought enough of it to tuck it in a pocket, but he did not get the ammunition packs and rush forward to Custer's aid.

Following the debate over Custer's Revenge, an Atari 2600 VCS title with adult themes, Atari had concerns over similar adult titles finding their way onto the 7800 and displaying adult graphics on the significantly improved graphics of the MARIA chip.

According to late 20th century research, Custer's ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, who followed the first thirteen immigrant German families from Krefeld and surroundings, had emigrated to North America around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatine refugees whose passage was arranged by the English government of Queen Anne to gain settlers.

Custer's mother was Marie Ward, who – at the age of 16 – had married Israel Kirkpatrick.

Ordinarily, Custer's low class rank would be a ticket to an obscure posting, but Custer had the fortune to graduate just as the Civil War broke out.

Custer's tenure at the Academy had been rocky, as he came close to expulsion in each of his three years due to excessive demerits, many from pulling pranks on fellow cadets.

A contrasting version of Custer's death is suggested by the testimony of an Oglala named Joseph White Cow Bull, according to novelist and Custer biographer Evan Connell, who relates that Joseph White Bull stated he had shot a rider at the riverside wearing a buckskin jacket and big hat when the soldiers first approached the village from the east.

During the 1920s, two elderly Cheyenne women spoke briefly with oral historians about their having recognized Custer's body on the battlefield, and had stopped a Sioux warrior from desecrating the body.

The two women then shoved their sewing awls into his ears, to permit Custer's corpse to ' hear better in the afterlife ' because he had broken his promise to Chief Stone Forehead never to fight against Native Americans again.

Custer's body had two bullet holes, one in the left temple and one just above the heart.

Custer's wife, Elizabeth, who had accompanied him in many of his frontier expeditions, did much to advance this view with the publication of several books about her late husband: Boots and Saddles, Life with General Custer in Dakota ( 1885 ), Tenting on the Plains ( 1887 ), and Following the Guidon ( 1891 ).

The enterprising company ordered reprints of a dramatic work that depicted “ Custer's Last Stand ” and had them framed and hung in many United States saloons.

The enterprising company ordered reprints of a dramatic painting that depicted " Custer's Last Fight " and had them framed and hung in many American saloons, helping to create lasting impressions of the battle and the brewery's products in the minds of bar patrons.

The reported massacre of Custer's force terrified the Kingsley family, but they were relieved to learn that bad weather had kept Dr. Kingsley from joining Custer.

It has been claimed that had all of Custer's men had the Schofield revolver, the results at the Little Big Horn may have been different.

It was widely rumored that Rain-in-the-Face, who had escaped from captivity and was a participant at the Little Bighorn, cut out Tom Custer's heart after the battle ; though the chief later denied it during an interview.

Later, however, when accounts of " Custer's Last Stand " began to circulate in the media, a legend grew that Curly had actively participated in the battle but had managed to escape.

Officers of Reno's command, who, late in the afternoon, from high points, surveyed the country in anxious expectation of Custer's appearance, and commanded a view of the field where he had fought, say that no fighting was going on at that time, between 5 and 6 o ' clock.

However, the route he was ordered to scout is much more rugged terrain than the gently descending North Fork of Reno Creek that Custer's command had ridden down at full gallop.

It was the 1870s, and Sitting Bull had led his large Sioux tribe away from The Little Big Horn after defeating Custer's incursion upon their native land.

In the early morning of April 3, at a ford on Namozine Creek, regiments from the 2d brigade, under the command of Colonel William Wells, of Custer's 3rd cavalry division, which had taken over the advance pursuit, threatened the rear guard of Rooney Lee's column.

The leading Union cavalry brigade of Custer's 3rd Division, the 2d Brigade under Col. William Wells, who had attacked the Confederate cavalrymen of Brig.