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...proposal to switch to a numerical speed limit of some sort will be decided this week; Custer had better odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONTANA: AMERICA'S FAST LANE | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Other publications may have plastered Cunanan's terrifying face on their cover, giving him the attention he so obviously desired, but you chose to pay tribute to Versace, a great artist. Thanks for focusing on the victim. BROCK WOJTALEWICZ Custer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...After Custer's defeat at the battle of Little Big Horn, reports say his ears were slit, a supposed admonition from the Sioux to listen more carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 14, 1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...have to wade through nearly 10 hours of the 12 1/2-hour documentary series The West--past Lewis and Clark's expedition and the gold rush and Brigham Young and George Armstrong Custer--to reach the man who historian Richard White contends is "the one true genius the 19th century West created." He is none other than William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, the former Indian fighter and buffalo hunter whose touring "Wild West" show forever fixed the myth of the West for the rest of the world. Cody's show, which began touring in the 1880s, re-created Indian attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: WHITE MEN BEHAVING BADLY | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...dawn of the 20th century. PBS is airing the series on eight nights over the next two weeks, smack in the middle of the networks' well-hyped fall premieres. (Little, Brown has also published a handsome companion book.) It's a mission that might seem as foolhardy as Custer's, but The West has much of the same appeal that drew record audiences (for PBS) to The Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: WHITE MEN BEHAVING BADLY | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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