Last Ride

It was a long way from the Ohio River Valley where he was born to that last day of his life leading his battalion of five troops of the 7th Cavalry across a sleepy little river in the Valley of the Greasy Grass against the largest massed Indian encampment ever recorded in North America. His had been a lifetime filled with close family associations, moronic episodes of youth, eye-popping bravery, unequaled valor, and sometimes questionable honor. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer had spent half his life fighting his countryas enemies, be they Confederate gray or frontier Indians. He has been heralded as a national hero and damned as the worst soldier ever to command. His reputation has withstood countless attacks concerning his personal character and abilities as a man, a soldier, and a commander. This book sets the record straight concerning the life and times of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his last ride.