Vanishing monuments – the case of Custer City, Colorado
| dc.contributor.author | Zander, Cecily Nelson | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-05T18:04:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-05T18:04:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-07-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the months and years that followed the battle of the Little Bighorn, dozens of towns and counties named after Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer sprang up across the United States—paying tribute to a soldier who committed, arguably, one of the worst blunders in American military history in pursuit of the cause of settler colonialism and a national policy of violent Indian removal. In 1877 the legislature of Colorado designated 740 square miles of mountainous terrain west of present-day Pueblo as Custer County, paying tribute to both Custer and the legacy of American military activities in the Centennial State. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | This is the published version of a blog post that is available at https://emergingcivilwar.com/2020/07/23/vanishing-monuments-the-case-of-custer-city-colorado/. Recommended citation: Zander, C. N. (2020, July 23). Vanishing monuments – the case of Custer City, Colorado. Emerging Civil War. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/15671 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://emergingcivilwar.com/2020/07/23/vanishing-monuments-the-case-of-custer-city-colorado/ | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Emerging Civil War | |
| dc.subject | Civil War in the Far West | |
| dc.subject | Colorado | |
| dc.subject | Custer City | |
| dc.subject | George A. Custer | |
| dc.subject | Memory | |
| dc.subject | Reconciliation | |
| dc.title | Vanishing monuments – the case of Custer City, Colorado | |
| dc.type | Blog Post |