The American West : Custer Essay
The name of "Custer" has become a byword. Today, when one is involved in seemingly hopeless circumstances reference to "Custer's Last Stand" might be made. On the surface, and even after some digging, the case could be made that Custer was the victim of his own mistakes. This case will not be made here but only acknowledged to be a possible conclusion. The case made here is one which notes that those under Custer's command on June 25, 1876 failed him, and in failing him certainly doomed him.
The purpose of this essay will not be to slander the Indian nations with whom Custer fought that day. The Sioux and other tribes were in the right that day. Treaties had been made with these Indians granting them the Dakota Territory and the region of the Black Hills forever. Treaties the White Man drew up and signed gave them this land. In 1874 Gold was discovered in the region of the Black Hills, on Indian land. With the discovery of Gold treaties were forgotten. The thought of the time was......
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