George Armstrong Custer: The Soldier Who Led 268 Men to Their Deaths at Little Bighorn

THE BOY GENERAL, THE BROKEN TREATY, AND THE HILL WHERE 268 MEN NEVER CAME HOME In the summer of 1876, a trumpeter rode south carrying a penciled note that could have changed everything. Behind him, five companies of the Seventh Cavalry rode toward the largest village they had ever seen. This is the story Hollywood never told. A last place West Point cadet, a broken treaty, a corrupt Washington, and the men who paid for decisions made far from the valley of the Little Bighorn. 📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2010) Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn (1984) T. J. Stiles, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (2015) Robert M. Utley, Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier (1988) Jerome A. Greene, Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867 to 1869 (2004) Richard A. Fox Jr., Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle (1993) Joseph M. Marshall III, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History (2007) Jeffrey Ostler, The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground (2010) George Armstrong Custer, My Life on the Plains (1874) Elizabeth B. Custer, Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer (1885) 📖 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL This video is made for educational and informative purposes. Our goal is to widen your knowledge of American frontier history and give you real, valuable content grounded in the historical record. Every script on this channel is researched and written by a human. The visuals and storyboard are brainstormed and developed internally by our team.