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This informal portrait shows George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), dressed in buckskins and holding a firearm during the Duke Alexis' hunt to Kansas. The Grand Russian Duke traveled to the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska to take part in the adventures of a buffalo hunt led by Custer, Buffalo Bill, and General Philip Sheridan.
Date: 1872
Item Number: 216331
Call Number: B Custer, George *21
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216331
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Military
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Leisure activities - Hunting
Date - 1870s - 1872
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry
Military - Wars - Civil War
Military - Wars - Indian Wars
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Cody, William F. "Buffalo Bill", 1846-1917
People - Notable People - Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876
People - Notable People - Sheridan, Philip H., 1831-1888
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
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