Mangold scrapbooks, 1876-1934.

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Mangold scrapbooks, 1876-1934.

18 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, booklets, photographs and postcards; topics include Custer's last battle, Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, Soapy Smith, Butch Cassidy, western gun fighters, and other aspects of frontier life; bulk of material is on Native Americans.

2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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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...