Indians and settlers, 1876-1877.

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Indians and settlers, 1876-1877.

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Handwritten notes and transcripts from Robert E. Strahorn's Hand Book of Wyoming (Cheyenne, 1877), and from the Cheyenne Daily Sun, March 8 - December 28, 1876. Some information on the building up of Cheyenne, but mostly concerned with the disastrous Sioux campaigns of Crook and Custer, 1876. See also "Wyoming Territorial Affairs" [BANC MSS P-M 10].

Originals : 100 leaves ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (101 exposures) : negative (Rich. 116:16) and positive.

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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...

Strahorn, Robert E. (Robert Edmund), 1852-1944

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Western pioneer, soldier, and businessman. From the description of Ninety years of boyhood / by Robert E. Strahorn, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42064474 ...

Crook, George, 1829-1890

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