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New to the Custer Collection – March 2019

Mar 22, 2019 | Custer Collection

The Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana is a multimedia collection that includes over 5000 books, videos, numerous images, journals, newspaper articles, sound recordings and artwork. It focuses on the life of General George A. Custer. This includes his academic...

New to the Custer Collection – January 2017

Jan 12, 2017 | Custer Collection

The Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana is a multimedia collection that includes over 5000 books, videos, numerous images, journals, newspaper articles, sound recordings and art work.  It focuses on the life of General George A. Custer which includes his...

The Many Images of Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Apr 5, 2016 | Custer Collection

Even though her husband, General George A. Custer, is known as the most photographed general of the Civil War, many images still exist of Elizabeth Bacon Custer.  The Lawrence A. Frost Collection houses a small collection of images of the Custer family.  Part of this...

Custer’s Black White Man – Isaiah Dorman

Feb 9, 2016 | Custer Collection

Little is known about the early life of Custer’s interpreter Isaiah Dorman.  Sources conflict on his birth year and place.  It has been written that he was born a free man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while other sources state that he was born a slave on the D’Orman...

New to the Custer Collection – January 2016

Jan 5, 2016 | Custer Collection

The Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana is a multimedia collection that includes over 5000 books, videos, numerous images, journals, newspaper articles, sound recordings and art work.  It focuses on the life of General George A. Custer which includes his...

The Custer Family and the Civil War

Dec 9, 2015 | Custer Collection

Which Custer brother? Civil War soldier William Kimball, a member of the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, relates an incident involving a derailed train attacked by rebels on May 18, 1864, near Huntsville, Alabama. Kimball states, “The engineer was a brother of...

New to the Custer Collection – November 2015

Oct 29, 2015 | Custer Collection

The Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana is a multimedia collection that includes over 5000 books, videos, numerous images, journals, newspaper articles, sound recordings and art work.  It focuses on the life of General George A. Custer which includes his...

A Custer Reader

Aug 27, 2015 | Custer Collection

The Lawrence A. Frost Collection contains over 5000 books relating to General George A. Custer and many other pieces of Custeriana.  For those just starting to study Custer deciding where to start can be daunting.  Fortunately Custer scholars have provided...