George A. Custer in film collection 1923-1976

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George A. Custer in film collection 1923-1976

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This collection contains motion picture posters, film stills, lobby cards, pressbooks, flyers, programs, scripts, and soundtrack recordings from various western films related to George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876).

DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

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DeGolyer Library

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Amy Clampitt (June, 1920-September, 1994) grew up in the Quaker community of New Providence, Iowa. She wrote Shakespearean sonnets as a young girl, but by the time she attended Grinnell College she had decided that being a poet was untenable. After graduating with honors, she pursued graduate studies at Columbia University briefly and then turned to publishing. She worked at Oxford University Press for five years; gave herself five months of travel abroad; and then returned to New York City to w...

Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...