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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 that the battle to the last man at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 was one of the most heroic chapters in U.S. history...
...doctors, Custer's Last Stand has become a fascinating study in psychoneurosis. Several eminent U.S. medicos have recently been carrying on a lively posthumous psychiatric analysis of General Custer in the medical journals. The discussion began, of all places, in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics...
...Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians June 25. . . . He [and] every officer and man in five companies were killed...
...Sugar Cane, Rice Threshing). But among his new claims to fame was one stylized, swirling arrangement of "Cowboys" and wooden-looking Indians which Benton had first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily Adams' bloody panorama (for which Adolphus Busch Sr. paid...
...place to go, it stops whenever it has an opportunity for a song, a gag, an auto chase or a rough-&-tumble fight. Near the end of all the nonsense, Ann Dvorak puts on a ballet, purporting to be about Montezuma but looking something like a barroom engraving of Custer's Last Stand. Although the ballet seems to have been elaborately and lavishly staged, the camera gives it only a routine glance...