This coming Sunday, June 25th, in the year 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed, along with five companies of the Seventh Cavalry who rode with him, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn —
Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer has agreed to come with me to Wild Deadwood Reads in South Dakota on June 10th.
This isn’t the only time Custer has been in Black Hills country. Way back in July of 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant issued orders for Custer to scout a suitable site for a military post in the Black Hills. Custer himself told me his big mistake was bringing along those two prospectors. It had been rumored for years that the Black Hills were rich in gold, and those damn prospectors found it. “The beginning of the end,” he told me in genuine sorrow, “of the Plains Indians and their way of life.” Continue reading
“Koller mixes history with current events in this crackling good thriller that’s surely Hollywood-bound!” ~ Ed Addeo, 2016 Chaucer Award Winning Author
I started writing The Custer Conspiracy after imagining what the consequences would be if it just so happened that George Custer faked his own death and was not killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Probably none at all. After all, that battle occurred 140 years ago. Who the heck today would even care?
Turns out though that one of the world’s most secretive and dangerous organizations would –and did– care! Rich and powerful men who would do anything to make sure Custer’s secret remained hidden.I took The Custer Conspiracy and my first novel, The Oath, to the Naval Order of the United States Congress in Hawai’i where I was honored to have a book signing for their members.
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What can I tell you? Secret papers supposedly written by George Custer have been found. They contend there was a “conspiracy” to kill him at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and somehow he thwarted that “conspiracy”. I know it sounds unbelievable, but you can read his story for yourself by following this link to Amazon. Continue reading
Dennis Koller, Author 