George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was an American cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars who is best remembered for his defeat and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tribes, led by Sitting Bull.

Custer in popular culture

Films

George Custer has been played in motion pictures by Francis Ford (1912 twice), Ned Finley (1916), Dustin Farnum (1926), John Beck (1926), Clay Clement (1933). John Miljan (1936), Frank McGlynn (1936), Paul Kelly (1940), Addison Richards (1940), Ronald Reagan (1940), Errol Flynn (1941), James Millican (1942), Sheb Wooley (1952), Douglas Kennedy (1954), Britt Lomond (1958), Philip Carey (1965), Leslie Nielsen (1966), Robert Shaw (1967), Wayne Maunder (1967 & 1990), Richard Mulligan (1970), Marcello Mastroianni (1974), Ken Howard (1977), James Olsen (1977), Gary Cole (1991), Josh Lucas (1993), Peter Horton (1996) and William Shockley (1997).

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Francis Ford - Ned Finley - Dustin Farnum - John Beck - Clay Clement - John Miljan - Frank McGlynn - Paul Kelly - Addison Richards - Ronald Reagan - Errol Flynn - James Millican - Sheb Wooley - Douglas Kennedy - Britt Lomond - Philip Carey - Leslie Nielsen - Robert Shaw - Wayne Maunder - Richard Mulligan - Marcello Mastroianni - Ken Howard - James Olsen - Gary Cole - Josh Lucas - Peter Horton - William Shockley

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Thomas Custer, or Tom as he was called, has been represented by John Napier (1965), Ed Lauter (1977) and Tim Ransom (1991).

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Thomas Custer - John Napier - Ed Lauter - Tim Ransom

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Boston Custer was portrayed by Patrick Johnston (1991).

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Boston Custer - Patrick Johnston

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Custer's Revenge

A controversial adult video game known as Custer's Revenge was published for the Atari 2600.

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Adult - Video game - Custer's Revenge - Atari 2600

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Music

Influential American punk/alternative band The Minutemen mocked Custer's defeat and questioned the dignity - or lack thereof - in which he died during the Battle of the Little Bighorn, on the title track of their 1981 LP The Punch Line: "I believe when they found the body of General George A. Custer/Quilled like a porcupine with Indian arrows/He didn't die with any honor, dignity, or valor/I believe when they found the body of George A. Custer/American general, patriot, and Indian fighter/That he died with shit in his pants."

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American - Punk - Alternative - The Minutemen - 1981 - The Punch Line - Porcupine - Arrows

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Similarly, on his 1996 album Cowboy Celtic, Canadian singer David Wilkie sang "Custer Died A-Runnin'".

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1996 - Cowboy Celtic - Canadian - David Wilkie

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Alternate history

The larger than life nature of Custer's life has made him a popular subject for alternate history stories.

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The short story Custer's Last Jump by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley is set in an alternate history that takes as its point of departure the use of aircraft in the American Civil War.

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Custer's Last Jump - Howard Waldrop - Steven Utley - American Civil War

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In Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 alternate history novels, George Custer was never killed at the Little Bighorn, and became a Colonel in Kansas by 1881, chasing Indians and then doing battle with rebel Mormons in Utah Territory and an Anglo-Canadian column invading Montana in the Second War Between the States, becoming a war hero. In World War I, he led a tank offensive that crushed the Confederate States of America, and later became Governor-General of occupied Canada, dying of old age in 1929.

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Harry Turtledove - Timeline-191 - Kansas - 1881 - Mormons - Montana - Confederate States of America - Governor-General - Canada - 1929

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