George Armstrong Custer's "Winners of the West"

Battle of the Little Big Horn Series, Volume Seven. George Armstrong Custer's Winners of the West on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Related Matters with an illustrated dust-jacket in color, The Custer Fight, by William Herbert Dunton. On the endpapers: (front) Declaration of Survivor's Pension - Indian Wars; (back) Assorted Fort Custer Band Concert Programs. Appendix, Index, Frontispiece, 26 illustrations, introduction.

George Washington Webb , a common man who fought for the rights of the common soldier, the pension problems of the Indian war veterans and widows. He organized the veterans into a national association, began publishing Winners of the West, a newspaper dedicated to those who fought, and he continually lobbied for the granting of pensions and increasing those pensions granted.

These stories of the regular soldier sometimes do not have perfect grammar or spelling. The editor has left them alone, giving us a truer picture of the men who wrote them. This volume includes an abstraction of Custer related articles, including Curley the Scout; Comanche - thought to be only survivor or Battle of Little Big Horn; General Godfrey; General Terry; Theodore Goldin; Indian losses; The Battlefield - 1924; History of Indian Wars; Black Kettle; Campaign against Kiowas, Comanches and Cheyennes in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Indian Territory and New Mexico, 1874-75; the Custer Tragedy; Old Trooers' Stories; Rescue of two white girls; When a band played a cospicuous part in and Indian battle; Survivor of Black Kettle Fight; Forty Thousand People attend Custer Celebration - 1926 (50 Anniversary of Battle); Survivor of 19th Kansas Cavalry - Campaigning with Custer; Custer's Men were Horribly Mutilated; Chief Standing Bear Lecturing in San Francisco in 1928; Battle of the Washita, November 27, 1868; Dedication of Reno Marker; One Year after the Battle; Indian Fighters Recall Little Big Horn Defeat; Her Soldier Husband Died with Custer; Custer Battle Water Party; The Custer Battle Heroes; The Custers: Their Army Life and Experiences; Passing of Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Custer; The W. M. Camp Records of Indian War History; The Battle of the Little Big Horn A Tactical Study; An Incident of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, the wounding of Lt. Charles Braden, Seventh United States Cavalry- his miraculous survival; Buffalo Bill's Own Story of the Killing of Yellow Hand from The Making of Buffalo Bill. And, much more.

Originally from Casper, Wyoming, Mary Ann Thompson moves to Hays, Kansas in 1985. She has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Wyoming, a master's in history from the University of Kansas, and a master's degree in library science from the University of Denver.

Since 1985, Mary Ann has been the Kansas Room Librarian at the Hays Public Library. The Dorothy D. Richards Kansas Room is a special collection devoted to Kansas and the American West, including an extensive Custer collection.

Over the years, Mary Ann has been active in many organizations, serving on the boards of the Humane Society of the High Plains, the Hays Arts Council, the Mountain Plains Library Association, the University of Wyoming Alumni Band Association, and she is presently serving on the board of the Kansas State Historical Society. She was active in adding documents to the Kansas Collection website and has been on local committees for the Chautauqua of the Great Plains, the Home on the Range Conference and the Eisenhower Centennial committee.

Mary Ann Thompson returns to Wyoming whenever she can, including camping in the Big Horn Mountains with her basset hound, Brutus.