By 1871, the Northern Pacific Railroad reached Fargo, and Thomas Rosser, George Custer's roommate at West Point, supervised a survey party west of Fargo for the NP. In the summer of 1872, Rosser ...

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 ...

Custer's Last Stand took place at the Little Bighorn River, where he led over two hundred soldiers into battle against thousands of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. (Still Image: Library of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time—according to the history books. Schoolboys are told ...

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 ...