George Armstrong Custer. The name evokes instant recognition in almost every American and in people around the world. No figure in the history of the American W

The son of a village blacksmith in Ohio, Custer qualified last in his class at West Point. Yet he proved to be a brilliant Civil War commander from the moment h

"Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread—he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no c

The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion Reviled by the United States governmen