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CHAPTER 39 - FINAL CHAPTER The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part III. Final chapter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 38 Reno's Court of Inquiry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 37 The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 36 The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part I Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 35 In the Crow's Nest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 34 Custer sets out after the Sioux. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 33 On the Yellowstone River, three cavalry columns converge on the Sioux - Colonel John Gibbon from the west, General George Crook from the south, and Terry and Custer from the east. Terry expected to find the Sioux on the Little Missouri River - but they weren't there, so he moved his column west to the Powder River. There he learns that Gibbon has seen an indian camp on the Rosebud, farther west. Concerned to catch all the indians, Terry sends Major Marcus Reno up the Powder on a scout. Reno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 32 At Terry's St. Paul headquarters, Custer learns that Terry, not Belknap had ordered him to receive the suspicious Indian corn. Custer writes to Clymer, explaining that he was wrong and that there was no longer any reason for him to return to testify. Terry, who needs Custer on the expedition against the Sioux, dictates a letter for Custer to write to General Sherman. Grant relents and allows Custer to go on the expedition, although only in command of the 7th Cavalry. Mark Kellogg, a reporte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 31 But the Democrats decide to impeach Secretary Belknap, even though he has resigned, and Custer is summoned to Washington. Though warned against it by Sheridan's aide, Custer testifies against Belknap before the House. Terry's column will march against the Sioux in seven days, but Custer is held in Washington by subpoena to testify at Belknap's Senate trial. Custer asks General Sherman to help him get out of Washington, but President Grant refuses to let Custer leave. Custer tries to see Gra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 30 James Gordon Bennett convinces Custer to testify at the hearing on Belknap's corruption, by promising to support Custer for President if Tilden's nomination is stalled. Belknap orders Custer to report to General Terry in St. Paul, Minnesota, to get him out of the way. There Custer learns of Terry and Sheridan's planned move against Sitting Bull. Belknap resigns, so Custer's testimony won't be required, and that is the end of Custer's presidential prospects. But Custer can't give up the hop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 29 The government tries to buy the Black Hills, but they won't meet the Indians' price. So they order all Sioux to confine themselves to their reservation, promising to attack any who stay out. Sitting Bull refuses to come in. Broke in New York, Custer agrees to go on the lecture circuit. With Custer's help, James Gordon Bennett and the Democrats reveal that Grant's brother Orville and Secretary of War Belknap have been selling Army traderships for private graft. At Bennett's suggestion, to ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 28 The Black Hills expedition finds gold. Custer and the press send the word back to the world. Custer's Galaxy Magazine articles are published as a book. And August Belmont starts him thinking about running for president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 27 Custer has his first skirmishes with Sitting Bull. Although Custer holds the Sioux off and the railroad survey is completed, the Panic of '73 shuts the Northern Pacific down. Custer is assigned to Fort Lincoln in Dakota Territory. Custer thinks it's pointless, since the Northern Pacific is dead for the moment. But Sheridan explains: there are rumors of gold in the Black Hills. The Hills are on the Sioux Reservation, and the army is supposed to keep whites out of them. Sheridan sends Custer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 26 After Custer's sister's wedding, Custer and Libbie reunite. The 7th Cavalry is sent to guard Northern Pacific surveyors in Sioux country, what is now the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana, and Libbie goes along. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 25 Custer goes to Kentucky and is bored to tears. But Sheridan calls him to Chicago to deal with the great fire, and sends him out with a Russian grand duke on a hunting expedition. When the duke's party continues to New Orleans, an angry Libbie joins Custer in Louisville. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 24 The Northern Pacific buys Custer, too - but for what? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 23 Custer dines with the New York press, and finds out whom Jay Cooke has bought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 22 A beautiful soprano seduces him, too. Libbie asks him with whom he has slept since their marriage. He tells her. She banishes him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 21 The Cheyenne are finished, and Libbie sends Custer to New York again to find another career. There, Wall Street begins to seduce him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 20 Custer gives the squaws back to the Cheyenne, says goodbye to Meyotzi and learns she is pregnant with his child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 19 The Cheyenne turn over the captured white women. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 18 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 to Washington, Custer goes after the Cheyenne once more. He finds their head chief, Medicine Arrow, and Meyotzi tells him there are two captive white women in the Cheyenne camp. Custer takes four chiefs prisoner, including Big Head, Dull Knife an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 17 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 to be sworn in as President, and Sherman promoted to General of the Army. Sheridan hopes to get Sherman's old post, but the Washita slaughter of Cheyenne has stirred up trouble back east. Sheridan must be in Washington to defend himself; before ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 16 Custer consummates his "marriage" to Meyotzi. Copyright 2007 Aram Schefrin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 15 The Battle of the Washita. To learn about the facts on which this book is based, go to www.glorioiusboy.blogspot.com. Copyright 2007 Aram Schefrin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 14 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 spring an attack on the Pawnee. The attack fails, and the frustrated Cheyenne raid a settler family, raping the women. Knowing they would be punished, the Cheyenne decide to be hanged for sheep instead of lambs, and commit a series of depredatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 13 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 public furor over the Hancock war, sends a peace commission to negotiate with the Cheyenne. The trial begins at Fort Leavenworth. Copyright 2007 Aram Schefrin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHAPTER 12 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 Fort Harker, ignoring the deaths of two troopers in an Indian attack en route. At Harker, Custer wakes up Colonel Smith and asks for permission to go on by rail to Fort Riley, where Libbie is. Smith agrees, and sends his adjutant, Captain Weir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 11 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 driving off the attack, Custer decides to follow the chief to his village, and arrest his whole clan. But when Pawnee Killer goes north, Custer doesn't follow. He resumes his march toward Fort Wallace at a horse-killing pace. Thirteen men desert o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 10 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 Harker, and then further east to Fort Riley. Custer reaches Fort McPherson, a post on the Platte now commanded by the Colonel Carrington who was blamed for the Fetterman massacre. Meeting with Carrington, Custer learns that Fetterman had disobeyed Carrington's orders and caused his own death. Ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 9 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 timing made that impossible, but by then General Hancock, on the initial word from Custer, has burned the Cheyenne village on Pawnee Fork. Out of food, Custer's column has to give up the chase and turn in to Fort Hays for supplies. They don't fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 8 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, they were afraid for their women and children. A parley on middle ground is not conclusive, and, after waiting again for Cheyenne to come in, Hancock moves closer to the village. The Indians burn the prairie grass to deny forage to the cavalry h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 7 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. Disobeying orders to confine himself to rescuing the wood train, Fetterman charges up Lodge Trail Ridge following taunting Indians. As he comes down the other side of the ridge, Sioux and Cheyenne spring a trap. Fetterman and all his men are wipe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 6 Colonel Smith, who commands at Fort Riley, explains what's happened out here up to now: The enemy is the Cheyenne Indians. The Cheyenne had lived in Minnesota until the Chippewa, armed by the British, had driven them out. Some Cheyenne had gathered with the Sioux in the Black Hills of Dakota; some had gone to Texas, where they discovered horses, and soon became fierce warriors. The Dog Soldiers, a Cheyenne warrior clan, lived between the two branches on the Smoky Hill River in Kansas. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 5 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. For more information on the facts on which this book is based, visit www.gloriousboy.blogspot.com Copyright 2007 Aram Schefrin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 4 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 together a cavalry unit and come to Mexico to fight the French-installed Emperor Maximilian and his Confederate supporters. But the President forbids it, afraid it might offend the French. With no other prospects, Custer goes to Kansas as a lieut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 3 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 had hated to see it end. Beginning at Bull Run and ending with Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Custer had built a reputation for leading glorious charges and had been appointed the army's youngest volunteer brigadier general. But when the war ended ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 2 Benteen blames Custer's wife Libbie for spreading the story that Benteen had set Custer up to die. Thus begins the story: After the end of the Civil War, General Custer is assigned to Fort Riley in Kansas. Libbie insists that her friend Anna come along to keep her company. On the way, in St. Louis, Custer, Libbie and Anna see a performance by Lawrence Barrett which reduces Custer to tears (something that happens to him often.) That night,after sex with Libbie (they have an extravagant phys ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLORIOUS: CHAPTER 1 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 a drunk, picks fights with men he imagines are Mormons, and disrespects important women at Fort Duchesne. At his courtmartial, he tells the judges about his distinguished career in the Civil War. The prosecutor brings up the old charge that Ben ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |