his army just three miles southwest of the courthouse village where we are now however general george custer and the division of united states cavalry captured all the trains at apple matic station here the next day generally surrendered in this village after medics court house. that ended the civil war in for genya and would practically and effectively end the entire american civil war over the next two months that is sixty five. during the four years of the civil war at least seven hundred and fifty thousand people military and civilian lost their lives that's almost as many as in all other american was combined. the real winners at the civil war where the railroad company is the railway had experienced an incredible boom during the war is being an indispensable part of the transport supply and logistics network this machine known as a ten wheeler was built in eight hundred fifty three at first it ran in the mountains of virginia then in the civil war after that it pulled freight and passenger trains for many is after the war there was a tremendous amount of growth in the railroads and sta

however general george custer and the division of united states cavalry captured all the trains at apple matic station here the next day generally surrendered in this village after next court house that ended the civil war in for genya and would practically and effectively in the entire american civil war over the next two months that is sixty five. hundred thousand year in the four years of the civil war at least seven hundred and fifty thousand people military and civilian lost their lives that's almost as many as in all other american was combined. the real winners of the civil war where the railroad company is the railway had experienced an incredible boom during the war is being an indispensable part of the transport supply and logistics network this machine known as a ten wheeler was built in eight hundred fifty three at first it ran in the mountains of virginia then in the civil war after that it pulled freight and passenger trains for many is after the war there was a tremendous amount of growth in the railroads of the united states a lot of money was made by their ads during the

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had the gun fighting lawman, wild bill hickok, the heroic soldier, martyred to manifest destiny george custer, the scout, buffalo bills, the outlaw billy the kid, the indian , statesman sitting bull, the wild cowgirl calamity january. calamity jane. -- and from them came a story rich in romance and boundless optimism yet also burdened even while it was being told with nostalgia for vanishing past. because even as it played out it was over. over in an instant. buffalo bill cody who had lived the reality of the western story as a civil war soldier, railroad, buffalo hunter and army scout, put it all into a grand extravaganza in 1883 and he took it on the road. his wild west enthralled two generations of americans and people around the world. created the cliches and conventions followed by writers and film makers that were to follow him. now, cody was a true child of the american frontier. and he was a person who grew up in the very environment that he was now celebrating. he was the third child born in scott county, iowa, on february 26, 1846. and william frederick was the third child of isaac

raising horses here at medicine tail coulee, which happens to be the exact spot where general george custerfe. kennard raises horses for rodeo, for riding, and for this, indian relay racing. >> kennard: the athletic ability on them kids are just amazing. the competition is intense. >> anthony: they travel all over to compete at this collarbone smashing, skull-cracking, bone-snappingly dangerous sport. former allies and former blood enemies alike. >> kennard: it requires a lot of courage. >> anthony: i'll bet. >> kennard: and a high threshold for pain. it's representative of warrior mentality. >> anthony: one rider, three horses. >> announcer: and they're all in line. >> kennard: and they're lined up. gun goes off. it's like a spontaneous combustion. [ gunshot ] [ cheers and applause ] >> announcer: they're off. >> announcer: on the inside. >> anthony: top speed is around 40 miles an hour. and after each lap the rider dismounts at full freakin' gallop and leaps hopefully onto the next horse. yes, it's as dangerous and difficult as it looks. the prizes at big events run into the thousands of

how the park surface -- service struggled to change what was a shrine to the seventh cavalry and george custer into a historic site that is open to all americans, and is included change in interpretation. it includes changing the landscape of gettysburg. it includes change of where you can view the battle from. i still get chills, and i'm not embarrassed to say, when i go on custer hill and think about the last stand, because last stands by definition are dramatic, ann kuster is part of -- and custer is part of that. where you stand determines what you see. when you stand on last stand heal, you are experiencing the pecos and that -- pathos and the drama of the guys of the seventh still standing, custer and some of his men. it is a very for an experience to go down into the site of the huge indian village. it is private land. the park service for a while took people in buses down to that site, and to stand in that area and think about that, jerks you into a whole different sense of the battle. here is a case when you talk about historical revision. i call this the enduring truth of first inter

of course this is dustin hoffman is a very befuddled george armstrong custer before the battle of little bighorn. this scene came to have an debate coat a meaning custer and dustin hoffman actually came to him as i delve into the subject and custer for me came to personify the indian war and the many myths that surround the indian war. it always distorts history. now i believe the indian war and the west are uniquely susceptible to the phenomenon. much of those popular and academic histories in film and fiction as depicted this period as an absolute struggle between good and evil reducing the role of the hero and the villain as necessary to accommodate a change in national conscience. in the first 80 years following the tragedy of the wounded knee in 1891 which ended the nation had a tendency to lionize the fighting army and to vilify or trivialize those that resisted civilization. the pendulum swung in the opposite direction and extreme. the government and the army became seen as willful exterminators of the native peoples of the west. i have tried to bring historical ballads to the sto

five months younger than general george armstrong custer and five weeks later from custer's death he died shot in the back of the head. you'll see, if you get into the museum, cody and buffalo bill go back to cody's young young years. the other thing i want to mention, since the first talks, we're talking about the legacy really of buffalo bill and the wild west. i'm a fifth generation colorado native. my great-grandfather was born in 1867. he was a ranch foreman and for about 20, 25 years he ran a big ranch in north platte and columbus. family history says he did work for cody sometime during then but i don't know if that's true. however, what is true is a story passed down from my grandmother and my cousin has this. i mentioned this because, steve, i think we ought to go down to pub blow and take pictures of what i'm about to say. maybe from photographs we can identify who this person was. talking about the lacota and going over to england. my father was born one month after cody died, so when he was about 2 or 3, they were up there visiting her parents at the ranch and my grandmot

custer's seventh cavalry, the elite regimen of the plains. as his strike force and up from the south from fort laramie came general george crook with 15 companiesf cavalry and five of infntry, thousands of troops out against the sioux. first in stage shows and maybe of all time. what he told was a romantic adventure, a guilded historical pageant, combination rodeo and circus. most importantly, a tale of progress. and of the birth of a nation. cody told americans and then people everywhere around the world all about how the united states came to be. he became the embodiment of the new american, the embodiment of the american spirit and presented to the world an image of the rugged american as important to the 19th century as dr. franklin had been to the previous century. he firmly enherd the frontier mantle of boone, crockett and carson, with an able assist with remington, federal jackson, turner, theodore roosevelt, he made the story of the american frontier into the nation's great creation myth. buffalo bill, astride his snow white stallion, presented an image that all the people of a rapidly changing nation could embrace, no matter where they