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Sandy Barnard Book Signing

ACCLAIMED CUSTER HISTORIAN/AUTHOR AT HALL OF FAME

Internationally noted Custer historian/author Sandy Barnard will lecture and sign copies of his books at the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in Medora on June 17 and 18.

Barnard, who has written numerous books and articles the past 40 years, is known in the U.S. and Europe for his writing on the Battle of the Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer and the men who served with him. Barnard, a retired journalism professor, has been recognized for his expertise on Bismarck Tribune reporter Mark Kellogg, who was killed at the Little Big Horn; and First Sergeant John Ryan, who survived the battle and the archeological digs at the battlefield site in Montana.

June 25, 2006, will mark the 130th anniversary of the battle in which Custer and more than 260 troops under his command died in the Battle of the Little Big Horn with the Sioux and Cheyenne, near present-day Hardin, Montana. Barnard’s, Hall of Fame lecture precedes a symposium in Montana on the battle’s anniversary.

Barnard will speak at the Hall of Fame Saturday, June 17, at 7:00 p.m. and do a question
and answer session and book signing. He will speak again on Sunday, June 18, at 2:00
p.m. and again do a question and answer session and a book signing.

Among Barnard’s books are: Where Custer Fell, a study of historic photos of the Little Big Horn Battlefield in collaboration with the James S. Brust and Brian Pohanka; Ten Years with Custer, a 7th Cavalryman’s Memoirs; I go with Custer, The Life and Death of Mark Kellogg; Speaking About Custer; Custer’s First Sergeant John Ryan; and Digging into Custer’s Last Stand.

Barnard has also served as the editor of the Greasy Grass magazine, which is published by the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association.

Barnard, holds degrees from Boston College and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is a retired journalism professor at Indiana State University and lives in Wake Forest, N.C., where he operates AST Press and Rare Books.