Goodbye General Custer

ABOUT THE ARTIST... John Torma is a native of Ashtabula, graduating from St. John's High School; and a 1969 graduate of the Famous Artists Schools of West Port, Conn. He illustrates everything from vans to restaurant signs and everything in between. Torma is "low-key" and religious, but always finds time to donate to community projects like Lights On The Lake displays held every season at Lake Shore Park. And, he has provided the artwork for several other aspiring authors in the past as well. He is scheduled to do the artwork for another semi-fictional book now in the writing stages: The Failing Of Captain Lovewell". ABOUT THE AUTHOR... Sterling R. (Bob) Minnoch spent more than 20 years off and on researching the Little Big Horn Battlefield. In the end, he decided too many other fine writers such as Evan S. Connell, who authored Son Of Morning Star, set the facts down better than he could himself. Yet, having been a newspaper Editor during that same time, he was compelled to write something about his favorite subject...the battle. This book is the end result, and is purely fictional. There were at least 43 troopers who fled either before or during the actual battle over and above the many Indian Scouts who ran away rather than die. Three officers were never identified, but two were later determined to have been killed either on the field of battle ; or several miles away: Lieutenants Porter and Harrington. But James G. Sturgis, the son of Samuel, was never identified, but presumed dead. Just suppose however that he wasn't? What would he have possibly accomplished...and where? Minnoch resides in Ashtabula, Ohio where he spends his days of retirement involved in volunteering, writing, photography and remodeling a turn-of-the-century house.