Claes H. Jacobson
Stockholm, Sweden

More Custer
I am an avid reader of your Wild West magazine; I enjoy it a lot. In the near future, could you run some stories on General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand). I will be subscribing to Wild West very soon.

Keep up the good work.

James K. Kenny
Monterey, Calif.

The editor responds. Custer rears his striking head quite often on these pages. In the June 2009 issue we run stories about one of Custer’s scouts, Eastern reaction to the Last Stand, and the romantic triangle involving George and Libbie and a Cheyenne woman captured at the Battle of the Washita, as well as an interview with the author of a well-received Custer book. In case you missed it, the cover story of the June 2008 issue was Gregory Michno’s “Ten Myths of the Little Bighorn.”

Not Elm Creek, Not Rio Bravo
Two corrections from the April 2009 issue: The photo on P. 48 does not show the site of the Elm Creek Raid; rather, it shows Turtle Hole, Texas, where Indians killed “searcher” Britt Johnson. On P. 4, the editor got his “Rios” mixed up. The third film in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy was Rio Grande (not Rio Bravo). At least 10 sharp readers pointed out the correct title. We apologize for the mistakes.

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