May 28th, 2010

There are times I see a young man in his early 20s and think about the son I lost. He would have been 22 this month. I imagine Elizabeth Custer thought about such things. She and George wanted children, but they could never have any. Some historians believe George couldn’t father any children. They maintain that complications from spending years riding horseback made it impossible. Descendants of a Sioux Indian woman named Monahsetah disregard that notion. They believe that George fathered a child with the lovely maiden and that Elizabeth knew about the boy. George loved Elizabeth, but he never let that interfere with getting involved with another woman. If he did have a baby with Monahsetah that had to have been heartbreaking for Elizabeth. Not only would that have been physical proof your husband had been unfaithful, but confirmation that YOU were definitely the one unable to have a child. I admire her devotion to George even after he was killed. Elizabeth was a faithful widow. On this day 129 years ago people in the town of Galeyville, Arizona were celebrating the fact that notorious bad guy, Curly Bill Brocious would soon be leaving the territory. A Galeyville resident by the name of Jim Wallace had grown tired of Curly Bill constantly giving him sass and shot him in the neck. The bullet exited through Curly Bill’s cheek and knocked out several teeth. It was a serious wound, but Curly Bill survived and left the area after he recovered. He had it coming. Sure hope that skunk never procreated.