Custer still stands. (myths about Gen. George Custer keep his memory alive)

From: Newsweek | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Custer's loss of the famous battle was molded into hero-status by American myth makers including Walt Whitman and Hollywood. There is often no logic as to why certain people or events are glamorized or vilified by history. Americans have guilt feelings about their past which adds to the quandary.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS ago, on the eve of America's Centennial celebration, Gen. George Armstrong Custer gained immortality for losing a battle that might now be a mere historical footnote had he won. Instead of going down in history as the last-in-his-class West Pointer who went on to ...

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