The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer (58 page)

Paha Sapa.
See also
Black Hills

Palmer, William Jackson

Palmer House, Chicago

Panic of 1873

Parker, Ely

Parsons, Charles C.

Pawnee

Pawnee Killer

Pickard, Edward H.

Pickett, George

“Pike's Peak or Bust”

Pine Ridge Reservation

Pleasanton, Alfred

Porter, Henry

Porter, James E.

Powder River

base camp at

Cheyenne warriors flee to

Far West
docked at mouth of

reserved for Indians only

Reynolds' attack of Sioux-Cheyenne village on

presidential candidate argument

prisoners of war, noncombatants as.
See also
women and children

pseudo-revisionism

Quaker policy

Rain-in-the-Face (chief)

myth of vengeance of

recruits.
See
cavalry recruits

Red Cloud (chief)

on number of Indian warriors at Little Bighorn

Red Cloud Agency

Red Horse (chief), on “bravest man Sioux ever fought”

The Red Right Hand, or Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer

Red Star (Arikara scout)

Red Tomahawk

Redpath Lyceum Bureau, Boston

Reed, Arthur (“Autie”)

Reed, David

Reed, Harry Armstrong

Reed, Lydia Ann (half sister of Custer, G. A.)

Reily, William Van Wyck

Reno, Marcus A.

aborting orders at Little Bighorn

appointed commander

background

at Court of Inquiry

court-martial and dishonorable discharge of

Enlisted Men's Petition irregularities

interred with full military honors

Lee, J., letter condemning

legally cleared of wrongdoing

orders from Custer, G. A., delivered to

panicked retreat of

Reno Court of Inquiry

Benteen's testimony

Lee, J., letter to Custer, Elizabeth

reservations

dependent upon government rations

Fort Cobb

Indian Policy requiring

as necessary for all Plains Indians

Pine Ridge

Sioux

Standing Rock

ultimatum delivered to

revisionist interpretation

Reynolds, Joseph

Reynolds, “Lonesome Charley”

Custer, Elizabeth, description of

Roberts, Annie Gibson

Roman Nose

Romanov, Alexis

Rosebud River Valley

Crook versus Crazy Horse at

Sioux Sun Dance at

Sitting Bull's people at

Sun Dance

Rosenberg, Bruce A.

Ross, Horatio

Ross, Mary Hannah

Rosser, Thomas L.

defeated and humiliated

Royall, W. B.

Runs-the-Enemy (chief)

Ryan, John

Sand Creek Massacre

Sandoz, Mari

Sans Arc

Santee Sioux

Sash Dance

Satanta

Sayler's Creek battle

scapegoat, for Little Bighorn defeat

scarlet neckties

Scott, Douglas D.

Scott, Hugh L.

Seward, William H.

Sheridan, Michael V.

Sheridan, Philip

on Battle of Washita

Winter Campaign by

Sherman, William T.

disbelief of Custer, G. A., defeat

implies Custer, G. A. disobedience

Winter Campaign by

Siege of Yorktown

Siep, Robert C.

silver ore

Sioux

at Battle of Little Big Horn

“bravest man Sioux ever fought”

counting coup

demonization of

families marching toward Bighorn Mountains

firearm superiority

Strong Hearts warrior society

Sun Dance at Rosebud River Valley

victory celebration

Winter Campaign against

Sioux reservations

Great Sioux Reservation

ultimatum delivered to

Sitting Bull (chief)

assembling his people in Rosebud River Valley

background

Grouard adopted by

as medicine man and counselor

surrender of

Smith, Algernon E. (“Fresh”)

Smith, Andrew Jackson (“A. J.”)

Smith, C. F.

Snake Creek battle

Snow, Clyde

sports hunting

Spotted Tail (chief)

Standing Bear (chief)

Standing Rock Reservation

Stanley, David

Stanley, Henry M.

Steven Lode silver mine

Strong Hearts warrior society

Stuart, Jeb

Sturgis, Ella (daughter of Samuel)

Sturgis, James Garland (“Jack”)

regarding horse “Comanche”

Sturgis, Samuel

Sully, Alfred

Summit Springs.
See
Battle of Summit Springs

Sun Dance, Rosebud River Valley

surrender table, Civil War

survivors

Enlisted Men's Petition scheme

lone

Tall Bull (chief)

Tappan, Samuel F.

Tatanka Yotanka.
See also
Sitting Bull

taxidermy, Custer, G. A., interest in

Taylor, H. M. (“Muggins”)

Tenting on the Plains or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
(Custer, E.)

Terry, Alfred Howe

background

–Cooke strategy

on Custer, G. A., “disobedience”

–Custer Dakota Column

–Gibbons Column

identifying bodies on Little Bighorn battlefield

June 1876 orders to Custer, G. A.

They-Are-Afraid-of-Her

Thompson, William

Tilford, Joseph G.

total war

Trevilian Station battle

Troop E, mystery of

Trooper Mike

Turf, Field and Farm

Two Kettle

Two Moon

fatal blow to Custer, G. A.

Union Pacific Railroad

Varnum, Charles A.

at Crow's Nest promontory

Voit, Otto

Wagon Box Fight

Wakova.
See
Wilson, Jack

Wallace, George (“Nick”)

Washita.
See
Battle of the Washita

Watts, George

Waynesboro battle

weaponry, Battle of the Little Bighorn

cannon versus Gatling guns

Model 1873 Springfield carbines

Weir, Thomas B.

Weir Point

West, Robert W.

westward expansion

White, Sarah

Whittaker, Frederick

Wichasha Wakan
(medicine man)

Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill's

Wilkinson, E. S.

Wilson, Jack (“Wakova”)

Winchell, Newton

Windolph, Charles

Winter Campaign (1868–69)

women and children

captured

Indian, as POWs

Indian, mourning their dead

Sand Creek massacre of

Wounded Knee massacre of

Wood, W. W.

Wooden Leg

Wounded Knee Massacre

Wright, J. M.

Wynkoop, Edward W.

Yates, George W.

body of

Yellow Bird

Yellow Hair

Yellowstone Expedition (1872–1873)

Young, Pierce M. B.

Cadet George Armstrong Custer, West Point, 1861.
(Author's Collection)

Brevet Maj. Gen. Armstrong Custer, 1865.
(Author's Collection)

Generals Sheridan, Merritt, Custer, Forsyth, and Deven, circa 1864.
(Author's Collection)

Elizabeth “Libbie” Bacon Custer, 1874.
(Author's Collection)

Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 negotiations. Commissioner Gen. Alfred Terry, 2nd from right. Gen. William T. Sherman, 6th from right.
(Courtesy Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument)

George Armstrong Custer during the winter campaign of 1868.
(Author's Collection)