Episodes
Published 07/09/07
-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part III. And The End.
Published 07/09/07
-In this episode: Reno's Court of Inquiry
Published 07/08/07
-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part II
Published 07/07/07
-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part I
Published 07/06/07
-In this episode: In the Crow's Nest
Published 07/05/07
-In this episode: Custer sets out after the Sioux.
Published 07/04/07
-In this episode: On the Yellowstone River, three cavalry columns converge on the Sioux - Colonel John Gibbon from the west, General George Crook from the south, and Terry and Custer from the east. Terry expected to find the Sioux on the Little Missouri River - but th
Published 07/03/07
-In this episode: At Terry's St. Paul headquarters, Custer learns that Terry, not Belknap had ordered him to receive the suspicious Indian corn. Custer writes to Clymer, explaining that he was wrong and that there was no longer any reason for him to return to testify.
Published 07/02/07
-In this episode: But the Democrats decide to impeach Secretary Belknap, even though he has resigned, and Custer is summoned to Washington. Though warned against it by Sheridan's aide, Custer testifies against Belknap before the House. Terry's column will march agains
Published 07/01/07
-In this episode: James Gordon Bennett convinces Custer to testify at the hearing on Belknap's corruption, by promising to support Custer for President if Tilden's nomination is stalled. Belknap orders Custer to report to General Terry in St. Paul, Minnesota, to get h
Published 06/30/07
-In this episode: The government tries to buy the Black Hills, but they won't meet the Indians' price. So they order all Sioux to confine themselves to their reservation, promising to attack any who stay out. Sitting Bull refuses to come in. Broke in New York, Custer
Published 06/29/07
-In this episode: The Black Hills expedition finds gold. Custer and the press send the word back to the world. Custer's Galaxy Magazine articles are published as a book. And August Belmont starts him thinking about running for president.
Published 06/28/07
-In this episode: Custer has his first skirmishes with Sitting Bull. Although Custer holds the Sioux off and the railroad survey is completed, the Panic of '73 shuts the Northern Pacific down. Custer is assigned to Fort Lincoln in Dakota Territory. Custer thinks it's
Published 06/27/07
-In this episode: After Custer's sister's wedding, Custer and Libbie reunite. The 7th Cavalry is sent to guard Northern Pacific surveyors in Sioux country, what is now the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana, and Libbie goes along.
Published 06/26/07
-In this episode: Custer goes to Kentucky and is bored to tears. But Sheridan calls him to Chicago to deal with the great fire, and sends him out with a Russian grand duke on a hunting expedition. When the duke's party continues to New Orleans, an angry Libbie joins C
Published 06/25/07
-In this episode: The Northern Pacific buys Custer - but for what?
Published 06/24/07
-In this episode: Custer dines with the New York press, and finds out whom Jay Cooke has bought.
Published 06/23/07
-In this episode: A beautiful soprano seduces him, too. Libbie asks him with whom he has slept since their marriage. He tells her. She banishes him.
Published 06/22/07
-In this episode: The Cheyenne are finished, and Libbie sends Custer to New York again to find another career. There, Wall Street begins to seduce him.
Published 06/21/07
-In this episode: Custer returns the squaws to the Cheyenne, says goodbye to Meyotzi and learns that she is pregnant with his child.
Published 06/20/07
-In this episode: The Cheyenne return the two captured white women.
Published 06/19/07
-In this episode: The Cheyenne do not come in. Custer goes out to look for them, taking Meyotzi. But the Cheyenne have slipped into Texas; Custer does not have enough supplies to follow them. He releases Little Robe who promises to bring them in. After Sheridan goes t
Published 06/18/07
-In this episode: Sheridan sends the captured squaws to Fort Hays, but keeps Mahwissa and Meotzi on hand in case their help is needed with the other Cheyenne. He insists Custer show him the Washita battlefield. There they find Elliott and his men, massacred. Grant is
Published 06/17/07
-In this episode: Custer consummates his "marriage" to the captured daughter of a chief
Published 06/16/07