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...pitiful remnants of the Sioux and Cheyenne. But the views were still important: the views of Jackson's Hole and the Tetons, or of the old Indian camps. Or the view of the Little Big Horn, where he and some of his platoon would ride from Fort Custer to pick over the site, for holiday and to bury pieces of bone and harness and indulge in the traditional recreation of soldiers visiting an old battlefield: to re-fight the engagement...
Penske simply flipped the ball to the fleet 5-ft., 5-in. sophomore, and Walsh found himself looking like General Custer again as Cornell went...
Anyone who has been a military academy cadet, a cavalry private, an infantry sergeant, a submarine commander, an R.A.F. flyer and a prisoner of war should be ready for the role of Commander in Chief. Not to mention having been a Confederate captain, George Armstrong Custer, who became a Union general in the Civil...
...Says John Baird, senior vice president and general counsel of Ralston Purina Co., which also has been in the same location since its founding in 1894: "The future looks better to me now than it did ten years ago by a long shot. This isn't Custer's last stand." Adds Mayor Schoemehl: "We have problems. But we have people and we have neighborhoods who care. We are going to come through...
...voting rights to blacks, and pledged to bring "civilization and ultimate citizenship" to "the original occupants of this land." But the speaker's will was not as good as his word: he failed to block the stampede of gold hunters into the Black Hills Sioux country, and George Custer paid the price at Little Bighorn...