by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 10, 2025 | Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Lakota
In 1971, when Alvin Josephy wrote about the “Custer Myth” for Life Magazine, he included a photo of the mass burial at Wounded Knee in 1890, committed by the next generation of Custer’s 7th Cavalry. In a recent issue of Native News Online, Levi Rickert wrote about...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 27, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Little Big Man
On Thursday night we watched a “rough cut” version of a documentary chronicling Alvin Josephy’s career as a historian of and advocate for Indians. Sean Cassidy, retired from Lewis-Clark State College, introduced the film, which he and fellow LC professor Patricia...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 11, 2021 | Custer, Custer myth, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Tim Egan
June marked the 145th anniversary of Custer’s debacle at the Little Big Horn. Custer’s death as a hero fighting for white dominance of the Plains against savage and hostile Indians contributed to the increased military pressure that ultimately did clear the West for...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 19, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Custer, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Ralph Graves
The July 2, 1971 issue of Life Magazine carried a story by Alvin Josephy called “The Custer Myth.” In the late 1960s, during the filming of “Little Big Man,” for which Alvin was a technical advisor, he took some Indian friends to see the Custer Battlefield,...
