Letter to Robert Bruce, 1930 March 24 [photocopy].

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Letter to Robert Bruce, 1930 March 24 [photocopy].

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ALS (plus 1 p. typescript) in which Carter comments that the printing of articles critical of George A. Custer is inappropriate since Mrs. Custer is still living. Carter expresses the belief that the true story of the Custer tragedy will not be told until the notes of Walter Mason Camp are available.

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Carter, Russell Gordon, 1892-1957

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Russell Gordon Carter was a award winning writer. From the description of Letter to Robert Bruce, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367553718 From the guide to the Letter to Robert Bruce, Circa 1930, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Carter earned his Harvard SB in 1916. From the description of Contemporary assertions that the federal constitution was a compact between states : special report no. 1, Government 13, January 8, 1916. (Harvard University...

Camp, Walter Mason, 1867-1925

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Born in 1867, Walter Mason Camp was a civil engineer who worked for the railroad and spent many summers traveling throughout the country interviewing various participants and survivors of the Indian wars. He died in 1925. From the guide to the Camp mss., 1873-1918, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) Railway engineer; editor; and, (avocationally) a historian of the Indian Wars of the U.S. Plains, 1865-1890. He avidly researched the Indian wars from 1890 to 1925...

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...