Frank Finkel - Wikipedia
WEBFrank Finkel (January 29, 1854 – August 28, 1930) was an American who rose to prominence late in his life and after his death for his claims to being the only survivor of George Armstrong Custer 's famed "Last Stand" at the Battle of …
A Farmer Kept a Secret for 44 Years. He'd Survived Little Bighorn.
WEBApr 9, 2007 · Many men had claimed to have been survivors of Custer's command at the bloody Battle of Little Bighorn, but Frank Finkel was the real deal.
A 7th Cavalry Survivor of Little Bighorn Owed His Life to a Horse
WEBAug 16, 2017 · A 7th Cavalry Survivor of Little Bighorn Owed His Life to a Horse — But Not His Own Sgt. Daniel Kanipe was the last man in Company C to leave Custer’s five companies under orders and without suspicion of cowardice.
Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia
WEBComanche was reputed to be the only survivor of the Little Bighorn, but quite a few Seventh Cavalry mounts survived, probably more than one hundred, and there was even a yellow bulldog. Comanche lived on another fifteen years.
Comanche, Survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
WEBDec 5, 2009 · On June 25, 1876 the five companies of the US 7th Cavalry under the command of Gen. George Armstrong Custer were annihilated by a force of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little...
Little Bighorn's Forgotten Hero - True West Magazine
WEBJan 30, 2020 · Charlie Windolph died on March 11, 1950, at the age of 99, the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. That summer, again working at the Custer Battlefield, I rode a bus down to Lead and returned with Charlie’s Medal of Honor, Purple Heart and discharge papers signed by Captain Benteen.
An Unlikely Survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn
WEBApr 26, 2010 · The only survivor of the U.S. 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn was actually a horse of mustang lineage named Comanche. A burial party that was investigating the site two days later found the severely wounded horse.
The Sole Survivor on the Army Side of Custer's Last Stand
WEBJan 11, 2019 · The body of Comanche is preserved to this day at the University of Kansas having been mounted by Kansas taxidermist Lewis Dyche. Comanche is on public display in Dyche Hall. A horse was the only survivor on Custer's side of the famed “last stand“ at the Battle of the Little Bighorn/Greasy Grass.
David Humphreys Miller | Faces of Little Big Horn
WEBThe late David Humphreys Miller, native of Van Wert, Ohio at the age of 16, armed with a car and $100 headed to the Pine Ridge Reservation and began interviewing the surviving warriors of the Battle of Little Bighorn and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Survivors of Custer’s Last Stand Make Peace - National …
WEBFifty years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, survivors gather in Montana. The men—including 82-year-old Brig. Gen. Edward S. Godfrey (wearing glasses) and Cheyenne and other...