Eriksmoen: North Dakota colonel had Custer arrested for ignoring order Following the Civil War and his involvement in Mexico to stop the French from meddling in Mexico's internal affairs, Col. David ...

FARGO — In 1994, the motion picture "Legends of the Fall" was released, in which Anthony Hopkins played the central character, Col. William Ludlow. Ludlow was the chief engineer for the U.S. Army and ...

This past Friday, June 25, is the date 146 years ago in 1875 of the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn. A notorious battle where Lt. Col. George Custer is depicted as a great hero in combat with the ...

Click to open image viewer. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward Custer, 7th US Cavalry. Custer, the younger brother of General George Armstrong Custer, was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn on ...

This year marks the 146th anniversary of the day that Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer led five companies of the US 7th Cavalry to their deaths at the Little Bighorn River. Custer was ...

Few figures in American history are as divisive as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. He's been hailed as a hero and martyr by some, and vilified as a brash fool who got what he deserved at ...

CUSTER’S GOLD by Donald Jackson. 152 pages. Yale. $5. THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Mari Sandoz. 191 pages. Lippincott. $4.50. Lithe and handsome in fringed white buckskin, his golden mane ...

In 1872, Lt. Col. George Custer, Gen. Phil Sheridan, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia and “Buffalo Bill” Cody met in Nebraska for a most important meeting/big game hunt. Omaha author Jeff Barnes will ...

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...