This is the fascinating saga of the egocentric and fearless cavalry officer who, after graduating last in his class at West Point, became a general at the age of 23. George Armstrong Custer, the son of a blacksmith, was born in New Rumley, Ohio in 1839. Known as America's Golden Cavalier, he led a rich and varied life. His rambunctious youth as one of West Point's most notorious cadets, his glory days in the Civil War as the youngest general in the Union Army and his self-reinvention as the nation's most famous Indian fighter on the Western frontier He is most famous, however, for his legendary last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn where he and his 212 men were attacked by 4,000 Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. They battled heroically and ultimately all 212 and General Custer himself were killed..
