Papers, [ca. 1920-1930].

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Papers, [ca. 1920-1930].

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Consists of letters from Edward Settle Godfrey, J.M. Carnahan, Lawrence F. Abbott, and Willism H. Ghent concerning George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn; review of the Custer Trail, 1876; newspaper clippings concerning Custer and the battle; notes on the history of Bismarck; a copy of the diary of General E.S. Godfrey; a biography of Robert Wilson; an essay concerning Sarah Campbell, the first Black woman in the Black Hills with Custer's Black Hills Expedition, 1874; a history of Fort Wadsworth; and a history of Burleigh County.

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State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives

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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...

Carnahan, J. M. (John M.)

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Ghent, W. H.

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Campbell, Sarah, 1972-....

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Wilson, Robert

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Media artist Robert Wilson was born in 1941 and received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute. From the description of Video 50 [videorecording] / Robert Wilson. [1978?] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 696400398 American physician in China. From the description of Robert Wilson letter extracts, 1937-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868075 ...

Abbott, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Fraser), 1859-1933

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Godfrey, Edward, 1871-

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Falconer, William A., 1859-1943

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William Falconer was born in Ontario, Canada in 1859 and came to Bismarck, N.D. in 1873 and worked in his brother-in-law's store. He held various county offices and was deputy state treasurer. He married Emma Butley and they had three children. He died at Bismarck on June 5, 1943. From the description of Papers, after 1932. (North Dakota State University Library). WorldCat record id: 48395723 One of Bismarck's earliest settlers and a post trader, Robert Wilson l...