Glorious
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Creator: Aram Schefrin
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In this podiobook: On June 25th, 1876, General George Custer died at the Little Big Horn.Why did Custer rush into battle against the largest agglomeration of Indians ever seen in the West, without waiting for support from other cavalry contingents which were on their way to the scene?To answer that, you need to know what happened on June 27th."Glorious," a podcast novel by Aram Schefrin, tells Custer's story from after the Civil War through the date of his massacre, in the voice of Captain Frederick Benteen, the soldier who hated him.
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Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part III. And The End.
Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part II
Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part I
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer sets out after the Sioux.
Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: On the Yellowstone River, three cavalry columns converge on the Sioux - Colonel John Gibbon from the west, General George Crook from the south, and Terry and Custer from the east. Terry expected to find the Sioux on the Little Missouri River - but th
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: At Terry's St. Paul headquarters, Custer learns that Terry, not Belknap had ordered him to receive the suspicious Indian corn. Custer writes to Clymer, explaining that he was wrong and that there was no longer any reason for him to return to testify.
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: But the Democrats decide to impeach Secretary Belknap, even though he has resigned, and Custer is summoned to Washington. Though warned against it by Sheridan's aide, Custer testifies against Belknap before the House. Terry's column will march agains
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: James Gordon Bennett convinces Custer to testify at the hearing on Belknap's corruption, by promising to support Custer for President if Tilden's nomination is stalled. Belknap orders Custer to report to General Terry in St. Paul, Minnesota, to get h
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The government tries to buy the Black Hills, but they won't meet the Indians' price. So they order all Sioux to confine themselves to their reservation, promising to attack any who stay out. Sitting Bull refuses to come in. Broke in New York, Custer
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Black Hills expedition finds gold. Custer and the press send the word back to the world. Custer's Galaxy Magazine articles are published as a book. And August Belmont starts him thinking about running for president.
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer has his first skirmishes with Sitting Bull. Although Custer holds the Sioux off and the railroad survey is completed, the Panic of '73 shuts the Northern Pacific down. Custer is assigned to Fort Lincoln in Dakota Territory. Custer thinks it's
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: After Custer's sister's wedding, Custer and Libbie reunite. The 7th Cavalry is sent to guard Northern Pacific surveyors in Sioux country, what is now the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana, and Libbie goes along.
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer goes to Kentucky and is bored to tears. But Sheridan calls him to Chicago to deal with the great fire, and sends him out with a Russian grand duke on a hunting expedition. When the duke's party continues to New Orleans, an angry Libbie joins C
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Northern Pacific buys Custer - but for what?
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer dines with the New York press, and finds out whom Jay Cooke has bought.
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: A beautiful soprano seduces him, too. Libbie asks him with whom he has slept since their marriage. He tells her. She banishes him.
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Cheyenne are finished, and Libbie sends Custer to New York again to find another career. There, Wall Street begins to seduce him.
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer returns the squaws to the Cheyenne, says goodbye to Meyotzi and learns that she is pregnant with his child.
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Cheyenne return the two captured white women.
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: The Cheyenne do not come in. Custer goes out to look for them, taking Meyotzi. But the Cheyenne have slipped into Texas; Custer does not have enough supplies to follow them. He releases Little Robe who promises to bring them in. After Sheridan goes t
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Sheridan sends the captured squaws to Fort Hays, but keeps Mahwissa and Meotzi on hand in case their help is needed with the other Cheyenne. He insists Custer show him the Washita battlefield. There they find Elliott and his men, massacred. Grant is
Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer consummates his "marriage" to the captured daughter of a chief
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer is convicted and suspended from rank and pay. The Peace Commission signs a treaty with the Cheyenne; the Indians give up Kansas and agree to move to the Red River near Texas. But they go back to the Smoky Hill to hunt buffalo, and while there
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer is arrested and courtmartialed for abandoning his mission and rushing to see Libbie. The Hancock mission has been a failure, and Hancock intends to make Custer the goat. While Custer awaits trial, President Andrew Johnson, in response to publi
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: At Fort Wallace Custer finds a letter written by a soldier at the request of Custer's illiterate cook, telling him that Libbie and Captain Weir looked to be a little too intimate when she was at Hays. Enraged, Custer takes a small party and rushes to
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Desperate to be with Libbie, Custer disobeys General Sherman's orders. Instead of heading north after Pawnee Killer, Custer turns south toward Fort Wallace, where he has asked Libbie to meet him. Pawnee Killer finds Custer, and attacks him. After dri
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer rides out toward the Platte River to rescue the Union Pacific's workers. Meanwhile, huge rains flood the country around Fort Hays, and to escape the floods Libbie and Anna flee east to Fort Riley. Out on the Platte, Custer meets Pawnee Killer
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer's men follow the fleeing Cheyenne, but lose their trail. Reaching the Smoky Hill River, they find the crew of the Lookout stage station murdered. Custer concludes the Indians he has been tracking had committed the killings. Later he realizes t
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: General Hancock orders the Cheyenne to parley at Fort Larned. But the Cheyenne don't appear, so Hancock moves out towards their village on the Pawnee Fork. Sioux and Cheyenne chiefs try to dissuade him from approaching the village; after Sand Creek,
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: While Custer and Benteen languish at Fort Riley, Captain William Fetterman leads a contingent out of Fort Phil Kearny, a post built to protect the main road to the Montana gold fields, to respond to an Indian attack on a wood train out of the fort. D
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Colonel Smith, who commands at Fort Riley, explains what's happened out here up to now.
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: General Sherman tells Custer how Indians fight. Custer's brother, Tom, joins the 7th. Custer throws a dinner for his officers, which ends in a poker game in which Benteen wipes Custer out. Benteen describes the hard life of the soldier on the plains.
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Custer is feted at the New York Broker's Board and in the salon of the financier Levi Morton. He meets the actress Maggie Mitchell, and sees the great singer Clara Kellogg. In his hotel lobby, he is accosted by Porfirio Diaz, who invites him to put t
Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Arriving the next day at Fort Riley, they are met by Major Alfred Gibbs, who commands the post. And waiting for Custer in Gibbs' dining room is General William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman asks Custer if he misses the War. As Benteen tells it, Custer ha
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Benteen blames Custer's wife Libbie for spreading the story that Benteen had set Custer up to die. Thus begins the tale: After the end of the Civil War, General Custer is assigned to Fort Riley in Kansas. Libbie insists that her friend Anna come alon
Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: At Fort Duchesne in Utah in 1887, Captain Frederick Benteen, an old man now, is finishing out his soldiering career fighting Mormons who are disobeying Federal Law. The Indian Wars are over, ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Benteen, now