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Glorious



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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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Chapter 39 - Glorious

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part III. And The End.

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Chapter 38 - Glorious

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Reno's Court of Inquiry

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Chapter 37 - Glorious

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part II

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Chapter 36 - Glorious

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part I

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Chapter 35 - Glorious

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: In the Crow's Nest

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Chapter 34 - Glorious

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Custer sets out after the Sioux.

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Chapter 33 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 32 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 31 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 30 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 29 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 28 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 27 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 26 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 25 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 24 - Glorious

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Northern Pacific buys Custer - but for what?

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Chapter 23 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 22 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 21 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 20 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 19 - Glorious

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Cheyenne return the two captured white women.

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Chapter 18 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 17 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 16 - Glorious

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Custer consummates his "marriage" to the captured daughter of a chief

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Chapter 15 - Glorious

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Battle of the Washita

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Chapter 14 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 13 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 12 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 11 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 10 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 9 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 8 - Glorious

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,

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Chapter 7 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 6 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 5 - Glorious

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.

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Chapter 4 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 3 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 2 - Glorious

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

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Chapter 1 - Glorious

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

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