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Custer's Last Shot; or, the Boy Trailer of the Little Horn : a Romance of the Terrible Ride to Death / Col. J. M. Travers.
Author
Travers, J. M.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Journal
Language
English
Publish Date
1883-07-11
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
Series
Wide Awake Library > v. I, no. 565
Source
Dime Novels and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Wide Awake Library, v. I, no. 565, July 11, 1883.
Topic
Dime novels > Specimens. Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Fiction.
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CUSTER’S LAST SHOT.
time is not far cietant when his wealth mother meee wrilltul at times, his other qualities com- crminate with the extermination of the warriors
jill Teceive pretty Adele as her own daugkter, | pletely hi is fau engaged. :
but Perhaps they are too young as yet for more Who among us can stand forth, and Pointing to 8 .
than surmises on my part. himself, say, « Took at me, and take a lesson.’ wounds roan anehiez, pehas of he ret from the
fi i am faultless?” ot one, Lam sure, a 18 former com-. -:
nea ney Elis ond ‘and er Started. for fhe And with Custer fell the flower of the army; | Panion, Red Goliath, but trembles whenever left
the reader's oye” the Will doubthese be ‘at the | noble men whose names shall ever be cherished | #one, for he has in some way heard of the terri-
side of im tots Major Burt oz some other of | by all lovers of the good and bravo. ple oath sworn by Pandy Ellis to have his life ;
of impe i) = Som) ~ i thei. . and ifthere is one man in the world whom the:
Cooke’s gallant officers, hat Pandy Ellis was eir first real avenger h Spaniard
On the: 6 ight of th vin of | the reader already knows, rene paniard fears it is the veteran trapper ..
the prairies ty tet us hope itwilt not he foe, er.| Whether retribution shall overtake Sitting Bull | chief.
‘Alas T . Custer! and his warriors, or not, time alone will tell. From the limited papers at my command I
‘aS | Poo! ; the movements of the troops under Terry, | have drawn this tale out of the terrible death-ride
» His memory will ever be green in the memory | also those under Cooke, the reader can glean | still so fresh in the. public mind, and now that
ons eho aidiers. his | dwell fresher news from the daily papers than [ can Custer has gone to Join his Aiixe fellow-ofcers
whole country mourns his loss, and we! . — in the spirit world, I hope a’ is faults, such as
they may, for a more dashing, chivalrous, yal- | At present it Seems that the Northwest will be they were, may be overlooked, and due rever-
iant cavalry chief never led his men to battle, and | the scene of a bloody Indian war which can only | ence shown for the name of our missing hero,
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