"LBH Survivors" Topic
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Korvessa | 02 Mar 2021 11:02 a.m. PST |
Over the years I have enjoyed discussing the LBH battle and have come to respect the opinions of a few TMPers: Garryowen, Saber6 & John Leahy – among others Anyway, was wondering what you guys thought of the accuracy of this article: link |
Garryowen | 02 Mar 2021 11:36 a.m. PST |
That article is a big topic to deal with here. Here is a link to a good video about Finkel: link Regarding Nathan Short, he is controversial too. I did an article a number of years ago for the Research Review of the Little Big Horn Associates on a possible last messenger from Custer. He would have been sent after both Knipe and Martin. The source for the story is the Crow scout Curley. After he and Mitch Bouyer left the bluffs above the river and seeing Reno's retreat from the valley, they joined Custer in Medicine Tail Coulee according to Curley. Curley went on to say that from this point, Custer sent a man on a sorrel roan horse off to the east. C Company rode light sorrels. A sorrel roan horse is a sorrel with white hairs mixed in. At a few feet away that would make the horse look like a light sorrel. That would fit Nathan Short who was in Company C. Going to the east would take him to the Rosebud. I am not saying this man was Short, only that there is some circumstantial evidence for it. Getting back briefly to Finkel, the author of the article linked by Korvessa, John Koster, carried on a debate in the Battlefield Dispatch, a publication of the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Assn. From the responses from his opposition, I finally decided Finkel was a fraud. But that is just my opinion. When I had first read The Frank Finkel story by the Custer scholar Charles Kuhlman in the early 70s, I tended to believe it. I wanted to believe it. But not any more. Tom |
79thPA | 02 Mar 2021 11:51 a.m. PST |
I thought Finkel was pretty roundly considered to be a fraud. As Tom states, maybe back in the day it carried weight, but the intervening decades of research have poured a bucket of water on the theory. |
Tango01 | 02 Mar 2021 12:48 p.m. PST |
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Major General Stanley | 03 Mar 2021 6:02 a.m. PST |
I read a book on Finkel, Custer Survivor, apparently written by the John Koster referred to above. I thought it was badly written, skewed and deliberately deceptive. I really cant say much about Finkel except that I came away thinking the story was fraudulent, but calling Mr Koster a scholar was more fraudulent. |
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