George M. Whitin letters : Miles City, [Mont.] to parents : ALS, 1881.

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George M. Whitin letters : Miles City, [Mont.] to parents : ALS, 1881.

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Contains 2 letters describing ranch life in Mont. including relationship with Native Americans. Also discusses Chief "Rain in the Face," General Custer and brother Thomas Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

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Rain in the Face, approximately 1835-1905

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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...

Whitin, George M. (George Marston), 1886-1920

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Custer, Thomas Ward, 1845-1876

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