Word: custer
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...when I just had to tell them about Custer's last stand," he muses. But although his present post means more work, he likes it better...
...same regiment that was wiped out under Custer, at the Little Big Horn...
Died. Jacob Homer, 96, last survivor of General George A. Custer's historic 7th Regiment, which was massacred at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; of pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak. A New Yorker who jo:ned the Army to see the West, he survived the battle because he was not there-there weren't enough horses to go around, and he had to stay behind when Custer made his last stand...
...says Andy. "I thought to myself, 'Now he thinks his bicycle is wonderful, but in a year he'll earn enough to buy himself a car.' I was struck by the freedom he represented-by distances in this country, the plains of the Little Bighorn and Custer and Daniel Boone and a lot of other things. I was excited by the motion of the bicycle too. The moving wheels were one of the most difficult things I ever painted. I called it Young America because it expressed in a way the vastness of America and American history...
...still marches to the tune of Garry Owen, a drinking song whose lilting melody strongly resembles The Campbells Are Coming. Custer, then a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, chose Garry Owen as the regimental march of the ?th soon after the regiment was organized in 1866, heard it for the last time just before the 7th rode off in 1876-to massacre by Chief Crazy Horse's Sioux on the Little Big Horn...