Canadians with Custer

Name: Canadians with Custer
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ISBN: 9781459704077

ISBN-10: 145970407X

ISBN-13: 9781459704077

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mary Thomas

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There were 17 Canadians present when Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer made his last stand in the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876. Some had served in the Civil War, some were close friends or admirers of Custer, and some were mercenaries who just wanted a job with adventure. William Winer Cooke, the scion of two prominent wealthy families in Upper Canada, became Custer's right-hand man. Mark Kellogg, a Canadian-American, was a journalist who joined the expedition by chance and documented the adventure in newspaper articles sent back east. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were among the leaders of the Sioux and Cheyenne nations' victorious warriors in this desperate attempt to…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 8/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Prologue



The Seventh Cavalry, June 1867



George Armstrong Custer



Custer's Court Martial



Court Martial Continued



William Winer Cooke



Donald McIntosh



The Battle of Washita



The Aftermath



Cooke and Custer



The Seventh Cavalry Heads South



The Northern Pacific Railway



The Seventh Cavalry Heads Northwest



The McIntosh Household



The Indians and the Black Hills



A New Assignment



Seventh Cavalry and the Black Hills



McIntosh Goes South



More Canadians Sign Up



The Hodgson Incident



The Black Hills Strategy



Journalist Mark Kellogg



The March West



Heading to Little Bighorn



Custer Splits his Command



The Attack on the Indian Village



The Battle of Little Bighorn



Custer's Last Stand



General Terry to the Rescue



Burying the Bodies



The Fate of the Canadians


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography