One man is directly related to two popular trivia questions: "Name the only survivor of Col. George Armstrong Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn" and "During the time of Custer, ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

Col. Custer's bandmaster at Fort Abraham Lincoln later became one of America's most celebrated composers of the 19th century. Felix Vinatieri was an extraordinary violin and coronet musician who ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward ...