Elizabeth Bacon Custer
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Elizabeth Bacon Custer was the wife of George Armstrong Custer, United States Army. She spent most of their twelve-year marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in
Custer, 1864
Battle of the Little Bighorn
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The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand and known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between c
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
…lectures. Her decades of campaigning on his behalf led to the public perception of General Custer as the "gallant fallen hero" and the canonization of Custer's Last Stand in American history for almost a century after his death. Elizabeth Custer never remarried and died in 1933, four days short of her 91st birthday…
The Custer Fight Charles Marion Russell, 1903
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A Cheyenne Sun Dance gathering, c. 1909
1876 US Army campaign against the Sioux