Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class.

Born in Rosita in Custer County, he grew up in Cripple Creek in Teller County and graduated from Cripple Creek High School in 1905.

Custer annually observes a " Gold Discovery Days " celebration and festivities over the last full weekend of July.

In the first chapter they meet a young Adolf Hitler, in the second the French heroine Joan of Arc, in the third the goddess Nike, in the fourth Marie Antoinette, and in the last chapter the Cheyenne and Custer.

By implication, he may have been the last white man to have seen Custer alive.

After Custer refused their advice to wait for reinforcements, Hairy Moccasin was dismissed by Custer about an hour before the last stand.

Soon the Indians finished off Custer and his men in the remaining companies C, E, and K. The last approximately 28 survivors made a dash south for the river.

In October, Keogh returned to Fort Abraham Lincoln for his old duty with Custer, and it would be his last days.

The senior captain among the five companies wiped out with Custer that day, and commanding one of two squadrons within the Custer detachment, Keogh died in a " last stand " of his own, surrounded by the men of Company I.

In 1972, Gerald F. Merna, the Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General at the U. S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, DC, learned there was a Third Class Post Office named Merna, in Custer County, Nebraska.

* Robbins, James S. Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

* June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5, 000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

* June 25 – George Armstrong Custer, U. S. Army officer ( in battle ) ( b. 1839 )

On June 25, 1876 the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne achieved a major victory over army forces under General George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but the Great Sioux War ( 1876 – 1877 ) ended in the defeat of the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies.

On June 22, Terry ordered the 7th Cavalry, composed of 31 officers and 566 enlisted men under Custer, to begin a reconnaissance and pursuit along the Rosebud, with the prerogative to " depart " from orders upon seeing " sufficient reason.

Custer contemplated a surprise attack against the encampment the following morning of June 26, but he then received a report informing him several hostile Natives had discovered the trail left by his troops.

On the morning of June 25, Custer divided his 12 companies into three battalions in anticipation of the forthcoming engagement.

George Armstrong Custer ( December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876 ) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.

On June 28, 1863, three days prior to the Battle of Gettysburg, General Pleasonton promoted Custer from captain to brigadier general of volunteers.

In June 1865, at Sheridan's behest, Custer accepted command of the 2nd Division of Cavalry, Military Division of the Southwest, to march from Alexandria, Louisiana, to Hempstead, Texas, as part of the Union occupation forces.

Custer arrived at Alexandria on June 27 and began assembling his units, which took more than a month to gather and remount.

First, while camped at Powder River, Custer refused the support offered by General Terry on June 21, of an additional four companies of the Second Cavalry.

He had a premonition of defeating the cavalry, which motivated his Native American people to a major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry on June 25, 1876.

General Custer came across this large camp on June 25, 1876.

Custer ’ s 7th Cavalry advance party of General Alfred Howe Terry ’ s column attacked Cheyenne and Lakota tribes at their camp on the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876.

From July 2003 to June 2004, an American firm, Custer Battles, secured the airport under a contract from the Coalition Provisional Authority ( CPA ).

Although early in the war on June 25, 1876 the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne enjoyed a major victory over army forces under General George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Great Sioux War ended in the defeat of the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies, and their exodus from eastern Montana and Wyoming, either in flight to Canada or by forced removal to distant reservations.

After the battle Crook returned south of the Tongue River to the base camp on Goose Creek, and he was still there on June 25, 1876 when General George A. Custer was defeated at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, some 65 miles to the north.

* Battle of Little Bighorn ( June 25-26 1876 ) General George A. Custer leads at least 268 men of the 7th U. S. Cavalry against 900-1, 800 Sioux Indians.

His command was the first to enter Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on June 28, and he was specially mentioned in the report of General George Armstrong Custer on cavalry operations there.

Thomas Ward Custer ( March 15, 1845 – June 25, 1876 ) was a United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War.

As colonel of the 5th Cavalry, Merritt was a member of the court of inquiry which first sat on January 13 1879 presided over by Colonel John H King 9th Infantry, which was convened to consider the behaviour of Major Marcus A Reno 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn ( June 25 / 26 1876 ) which resulted in the death of General George Armstrong Custer and over 200 men of the 7th Cavalry.

He served with the 7th Cavalry Regiment under George Armstrong Custer, and was with them at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June of that year, along with fellow Crow warriors White Man Runs Him, Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin and others.

It marked the first significant victory for the army since the stunning defeat of General George Custer at Battle of Little Bighorn in June.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

Custer County was formed on April 19, 1892 as an original county from Cheyenne land, and called G County.

The Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway on State Highway 21 climbs northeast from Boise to Idaho City and Lowman, and ends at Stanley in Custer County, at the junction with

-District 1: Carole Custer ( Republican ), serving from 2006 – 2010

George Armstrong Custer was a 4xgreat-grandson of Paulus Küster from Kaldenkirchen, Duchy of Jülich ( today North Rhine-Westphalia state ), who settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

After graduating from McNeely Normal School in 1856, Custer taught school in Cadiz, Ohio.

At Hunterstown, in an ill-considered charge ordered by Kilpatrick against the brigade of Wade Hampton, Custer fell from his wounded horse directly before the enemy and became the target of numerous enemy rifles.

During his entire period of command of the division, Custer encountered considerable friction and near mutiny from the volunteer cavalry regiments who had campaigned along the Gulf coast.

They desired to be mustered out of Federal service rather than continue campaigning, resented imposition of discipline ( particularly from an Eastern Theater general ), and considered Custer nothing more than a vain dandy.

Offered a position ( and $ 10, 000 in gold ) as adjutant general of the army of Benito Juárez of Mexico, who was then in a struggle with the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I ( a satellite ruler of French Emperor Napoleon III ), Custer applied for a one-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, which was endorsed by Grant and Secretary of War Stanton.

Sheridan and Mrs. Custer disapproved, however, and when his request for leave was opposed by U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, who was against having an American officer commanding foreign troops, Custer refused the alternative of resignation from the Army to take the lucrative post.

At one point Custer confronted a small group of Ohio men who repeatedly jeered Johnson, saying to them: " I was born two miles and a half from here, but I am ashamed of you.

Lt. Kidder was to deliver dispatches to Custer from Gen. William Sherman, but his party was attacked by Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne ( see Kidder massacre ).

Before leaving Fort Snelling, Custer spoke to General Terry's chief engineer, Captain Ludlow, saying he would " cut loose " from Terry the first chance he got.

Benteen was sent south and west, to cut off any attempted escape by the Indians, Reno was sent north to charge the southern end of the encampment, and Custer rode north, hidden to the east of the encampment by bluffs, and planning to circle around and attack from the north.

Custer and his command were prevented from digging in by Crazy Horse, however, whose warriors had outflanked him and were now to his north, at the crest of the ridge.

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.

However, several other officers of the Seventh, including William Cooke and Tom Custer, were also dressed in buckskin on the day of the battle, and the fact that each of the non-mutilation wounds to Custer's body ( a bullet wound below the heart and a shot to the left temple ) would have been instantly fatal casts doubt on his being wounded or killed at the ford, more than a mile from where his body was found.

Exampled comments from town meetings against affordable housing included " we need this like Custer needed more Indians "; " it's reverse discrimination "; " we lived in this in South Philly and Newark " they said, and that the housing would be a " breeding ground for violent crime and drug abuse ".

Custer is home to the Bedrock City campground, which attracts visitors to its construction of the fictional town of Bedrock from the animated television series The Flintstones.