Military History -- Battle of the Little Bighorn
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
"Did a Man in Private Life Known as Frank Finkel Escape from the Custer Battle?" Manuscript
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-355
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
created: undated
Elizabeth Custer Correspondence
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-1496
Abstract
Wife of General George Custer and author
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in Unknown; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/2005
Frank L. Anders Papers
Collection
Identifier: OGLMC-0043
Abstract
Engineer in Fargo, North Dakota, and historian of The Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876
Dates:
created: 1860-1966; Other: Majority of material found in 1875-1966
Sioux History in Pictures (Digitized)
Digital Record
Identifier: Digital Object ID ##x9506f