Informações:
Sinopse
In this podiobook: On June 25th, 1876, General George Custer died at the Little Big Horn.Why did Custer rush into battle against the largest agglomeration of Indians ever seen in the West, without waiting for support from other cavalry contingents which w
Episódios
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Chapter 19 - Glorious
19/06/2007 Duração: 18min-In this episode: The Cheyenne return the two captured white women.
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Chapter 18 - Glorious
18/06/2007 Duração: 19min-In this episode: The Cheyenne do not come in. Custer goes out to look for them, taking Meyotzi. But the Cheyenne have slipped into Texas; Custer does not have enough supplies to follow them. He releases Little Robe who promises to bring them in. After Sheridan goes t
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Chapter 17 - Glorious
17/06/2007 Duração: 17min-In this episode: Sheridan sends the captured squaws to Fort Hays, but keeps Mahwissa and Meotzi on hand in case their help is needed with the other Cheyenne. He insists Custer show him the Washita battlefield. There they find Elliott and his men, massacred. Grant is
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Chapter 16 - Glorious
16/06/2007 Duração: 16min-In this episode: Custer consummates his "marriage" to the captured daughter of a chief
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Chapter 14 - Glorious
14/06/2007 Duração: 20min-In this episode: Custer is convicted and suspended from rank and pay. The Peace Commission signs a treaty with the Cheyenne; the Indians give up Kansas and agree to move to the Red River near Texas. But they go back to the Smoky Hill to hunt buffalo, and while there
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Chapter 13 - Glorious
13/06/2007 Duração: 19min-In this episode: Custer is arrested and courtmartialed for abandoning his mission and rushing to see Libbie. The Hancock mission has been a failure, and Hancock intends to make Custer the goat. While Custer awaits trial, President Andrew Johnson, in response to publi
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Chapter 12 - Glorious
12/06/2007 Duração: 19min-In this episode: At Fort Wallace Custer finds a letter written by a soldier at the request of Custer's illiterate cook, telling him that Libbie and Captain Weir looked to be a little too intimate when she was at Hays. Enraged, Custer takes a small party and rushes to
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Chapter 11 - Glorious
11/06/2007 Duração: 22min-In this episode: Desperate to be with Libbie, Custer disobeys General Sherman's orders. Instead of heading north after Pawnee Killer, Custer turns south toward Fort Wallace, where he has asked Libbie to meet him. Pawnee Killer finds Custer, and attacks him. After dri
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Chapter 10 - Glorious
10/06/2007 Duração: 23min-In this episode: Custer rides out toward the Platte River to rescue the Union Pacific's workers. Meanwhile, huge rains flood the country around Fort Hays, and to escape the floods Libbie and Anna flee east to Fort Riley. Out on the Platte, Custer meets Pawnee Killer
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Chapter 9 - Glorious
09/06/2007 Duração: 18min-In this episode: Custer's men follow the fleeing Cheyenne, but lose their trail. Reaching the Smoky Hill River, they find the crew of the Lookout stage station murdered. Custer concludes the Indians he has been tracking had committed the killings. Later he realizes t
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Chapter 8 - Glorious
08/06/2007 Duração: 26min-In this episode: General Hancock orders the Cheyenne to parley at Fort Larned. But the Cheyenne don't appear, so Hancock moves out towards their village on the Pawnee Fork. Sioux and Cheyenne chiefs try to dissuade him from approaching the village; after Sand Creek,
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Chapter 7 - Glorious
07/06/2007 Duração: 16min-In this episode: While Custer and Benteen languish at Fort Riley, Captain William Fetterman leads a contingent out of Fort Phil Kearny, a post built to protect the main road to the Montana gold fields, to respond to an Indian attack on a wood train out of the fort. D
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Chapter 6 - Glorious
06/06/2007 Duração: 25min-In this episode: Colonel Smith, who commands at Fort Riley, explains what's happened out here up to now.
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Chapter 5 - Glorious
05/06/2007 Duração: 21min-In this episode: General Sherman tells Custer how Indians fight. Custer's brother, Tom, joins the 7th. Custer throws a dinner for his officers, which ends in a poker game in which Benteen wipes Custer out. Benteen describes the hard life of the soldier on the plains.
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Chapter 4 - Glorious
04/06/2007 Duração: 19min-In this episode: Custer is feted at the New York Broker's Board and in the salon of the financier Levi Morton. He meets the actress Maggie Mitchell, and sees the great singer Clara Kellogg. In his hotel lobby, he is accosted by Porfirio Diaz, who invites him to put t
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Chapter 3 - Glorious
03/06/2007 Duração: 19min-In this episode: Arriving the next day at Fort Riley, they are met by Major Alfred Gibbs, who commands the post. And waiting for Custer in Gibbs' dining room is General William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman asks Custer if he misses the War. As Benteen tells it, Custer ha
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Chapter 2 - Glorious
02/06/2007 Duração: 13min-In this episode: Benteen blames Custer's wife Libbie for spreading the story that Benteen had set Custer up to die. Thus begins the tale: After the end of the Civil War, General Custer is assigned to Fort Riley in Kansas. Libbie insists that her friend Anna come alon
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Chapter 1 - Glorious
01/06/2007 Duração: 25min-In this episode: At Fort Duchesne in Utah in 1887, Captain Frederick Benteen, an old man now, is finishing out his soldiering career fighting Mormons who are disobeying Federal Law. The Indian Wars are over, ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Benteen, now