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Raised amongst the backdrop of the hills in Southeastern Ohio, George Custer grew up with ambitions far reaching the stretches of middle America unto the plains of the western frontier. Eldest son of Emanuel and Maria Custer, he was doted on by older half siblings and nurtured on the stories of the Revolution and War of 1812. Still too young to participate in the Mexican War, young George Armstrong Custer sought and was appointed to West Point Military Academy in 1857. Although graduated last in his class, Custer would later distinguish himself as the youngest Major General in American History. His success during the Civil War became overshadowed by his last battle on the banks of the Little Big Horn River in Montana. |
Who is George Custer?
God was good and Crockett was a hero . . . .
Who is Steve Alexander?
| For a Michigan farm boy, the stories of Cowboys and Indians inspired a lifelong interest. Raised in an era before Political Correctness, Alexander matured when the head gear of choice was a coonskin cap. At three years old, his imagination was piqued when his father gave him an Old West magazine with the H.L. Steinegger painting of "General Custer's Death Struggle." Random Westerns on television portrayed General Custer as a hero, and schools still allowed the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag. Between milkings on the dairy farm, the neighborhood kids gathered for ball and once in a while recreated "Custer's Last Stand."
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By flashlight beneath the covers, he would read The Custer Album and Showdown at Little Big Horn. Every Wednesday, he would con his mother into letting him visit her friend's house so he could watch Wayne Maunder in color on ABC's series "Custer." It would seem a lifetime before he would visit the battlefield with a boyhood friend and spin a dream into reality. |
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