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"Did a Man in Private Life Known as Frank Finkel Escape from the Custer Battle?" Manuscript
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Identifier: OGLMC-355
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The "Did a Man in Private Life Known as Frank Finkel Escape from the Custer Battle?" nine page manuscript is one of several self-proclaimed escapee survivor stories. The Native Americans have uniformly insisted that no soldier escaped from the Custer battle, and those that tried to do so were pursued and killed. However, the tallies of the number of men buried compared to the number of men in Custer's battalion are not exact. The manuscript lists tabulations of the battle, trying to provide...
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"Did a Man in Private Life Known as Frank Finkel Escape from the Custer Battle?", undated
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The "Did a Man in Private Life Known as Frank Finkel Escape from the Custer Battle?" nine page manuscript is one of several self-proclaimed escapee survivor stories. The Native Americans have uniformly insisted that no soldier escaped from the Custer battle, and those that tried to do so were pursued and killed. However, the tallies of the number of men buried compared to the number of men in Custer's battalion are not exact. The manuscript lists tabulations of the battle, trying to provide...
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created: undated