The George Custer Photo Gallery - Everything and Sundry

George Armstrong Custer

So, these past few months, I’ve found myself in a Custer bubble, and I don’t even know what to do. But I do know how I got here.

We rewatched HBO’s Deadwood series in preparation for the final movie that was recently released that promised to finally wrap up the story 13 years later. Deadwood is a David Milch masterpiece.

The first season of Deadwood takes place in 1876 just after General Custer’s death at the Battle of Little Bighorn. And they mention his name. A lot.

Skip ahead in time… I’m perusing the books available to read on Amazon Prime and I see Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen Ambrose. I really know nothing about these two men, except that Custer died famously during his “Last Stand”. So I decide to read the book and am soon obsessed. This time period, these individuals, everything was larger than life.

I talk endlessly about Custer and Crazy Horse to my husband, friends, coworkers, family members, and though they are being polite, I am driving them crazy. So I decide to read another book to feed the desire; this time The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick. As I read, I keep finding myself looking online for pictures of all these people who lived in such tumultuous times and whose lives were snuffed out. I find the need to place a face with the names I read and I simply can not get enough.

Looking online, I see that there is a whole community of individuals curious about Custer. So, I thought I could pour my energy and enthusiasm into this photo gallery to share photographs with those like me who just want to see. All these images have been cleaned up a bit by me before posting to try and give you the best image possible, and this will be a work in progress.

General George Custer, this page is for you.