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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: December 21, 2014
Caption: Custer Monument - Interpretive Display
Additional Description: Panel 15
Custer, the Man and the Myth
The passing of Yellow Hair at the Little Big Horn is an episode of American history that has burned deep into the popular memory. More has been written about Custer's Last Stand than any other battle except Gettysburg. The battle has inspired books, paintings, poems, songs, movies and television programs - and bad jokes. Memorials in six states attest to Custer's prominence.

History has presented Custer in a variety of personifications and there is no consensus about him or about what really happened at the Little Bighorn. He remains today a man of bewildering contradictions, an enigma.
Submitted: December 22, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p296065
File Size: 2.660 Megabytes

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