Alfred Howe Terry, best known as George Custer’s commanding officer in the lead up to the Battle of Little Bighorn, is born on this date in 1827.

A fur trading post is established in Montana Territory on this date in 1809.

A new book on George A. Custer, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry, is released this week in 2012.

Comanche, the bay horse that survived the Battle of Little Bighorn, dies on this date in 1891 at the age of 29.

On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln defeats three opponents to become 16th President of the United States.

A commission of U.S. military officers, convened by Henry H. Sibley, convicts 303 Santee Sioux of the rape and murders of white settlers in Minnesota and orders their executions.

George Custer leads the 2nd Division of Cavalry of the Military Division of the Gulf into their new post in Austin, Texas, on Nov. 4, 1865.

On Nov. 3, 1875, President U.S. Grant orders the Army to stop impeding the efforts of whites to settle in the Black Hills.

Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce wins the Presidential election of 1852 and takes the state of California in its first general election as part of the Union.

George and Tom Custer get a new, little brother, Boston, born on Oct. 31, 1848.

George A. Custer dressed in costume as a Quaker Peace Commissioner in this 1875 photo. Sitting next to him is Custer’s sister, Margaret Custer Calhoun.

Not even Charlton Heston can save the Pony Express from extinction in October 1861.

George Custer’s younger brother, Nevin, names his son, born on Oct. 24, 1864, after the late military hero.

Work on the first transcontinental telegraph line, the brainchild of Western Union’s Hiram Sibley, was nearing completion this week in 1861.

Missouri Senator John Brooks Henderson leads the U.S. government in negotiations with multiple Indian tribes over the Medicine Lodge Treaty on Oct. 21-28, 1867.

The first group of European-Americans to cross the Continental Divide on Oct. 21, 1812, carry tragic news about the crew of the fur-trading ship Tonquin.

Members of Michigan’s Cavalry Brigade from the Civil War reunite for the first time in Detroit in October 1869.

On Oct. 19, 1864, Confederate soldiers led by Lt. General Jubal Early got the jump on Union troops in an early morning attack at Cedar Creek in Virginia. But a late afternoon charge by George A. Custer and Union cavalrymen turned the tide.

In our second look at movies made about George Armstrong Custer, director Raoul Walsh’s ‘They Died With Their Boots On’ came in at a hefty 2 hours, 20 minutes.

George A. Custer spent much of 1865 in the Lone Star State as the highest-ranking military officer in Texas.