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A 7th Cavalry Survivor of Little Bighorn Owed His Life to a Horse — But Not His Own

by John Koster8/16/20178/2/2022

Sgt. Daniel Kanipe was the last man in Company C to leave Custer’s five companies under orders and without suspicion of cowardice.

A detail of a circa-1878 lithograph called "General Custer's Death Struggle" depicts the last moments of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

A Farmer Told His Bride an Old Wound Was From a Fight With Some Indians. He Got It at Little Bighorn.

by John P. Koster4/9/200710/20/2022