Ebook: The other Custers: Tom, Boston, Nevin, and Maggie in the shadow of George Armstrong Custer

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; The Custer Siblings Were:; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Family Roots; Chapter 2: Growing Up in the Dining Fork; Chapter 3: Moving On; Chapter 4: Going to War; Chapter 5: Tom Custer's Long Year's Road to Stone Bridge; Chapter 6: Monroe; Chapter 7: Hometown Heroes; Chapter 8: Brothers in Arms; Chapter 9: Namozine, Appomattox, and Renown; Chapter 10: The General, the Old Lady, and the Scamp Go West; Chapter 11: Adjusting to the Regular US Army; Chapter 12: The Bloody Road to Washita;Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighorn-and so did their only sister's husband. Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died with the 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn in 1876. So too did their nephew and the husband of their only sister. Less than half the immediate Custer family would survive the massacre. This is their story. This book is a must for all those interested in the enduring Custer legend. Where other Custer literature focuses solely on George Armstrong, The Other Custers is the only volume to explore the lives of the Custer siblings in depth. War hero Tom Custer earned two Medals of Honor during the Civil War before riding into the West with his brother. There was the bashful and enigmatic Nevin Custer, and the young Boston Custer, whose one desire in life was to share the adventures of his idolized older brothers. Margaret Custer married into the 7th Cavalry and was widowed at twenty-four when her husband, James Calhoun, was among the dead at the Little Bighorn. The Other Custers traces the upbringing of the family and follows Nevin and Margaret as they carried the Custer name beyond Little Bighorn. The book also uncovers much more detail about the ancestors and descendants of the Custer siblings than is to be found in other Custer biographies.