Harry Custer: Is Custer a Hero?

Custer is one of those figures, many rare figures in American history, who lends himself to easy recognizability and to character kind of like Teddy Roosevelt. With Custer, you've got the hair. He was golden hair, yellow hair, and he's just, he's flamboyant enough that he, everyone knows about the Custer last day. But I also, this is something else about Custer that's kind of always surprised me: when I was growing up, Custer was originally a hero still. And here, all these people repudiating Custer as his Indian killer and this horrible man,. which was really kind of ironic because one of the other things about