Author Rod Beemer will deliver a multimedia presentation entitled “General Custer & The Smoky Hill Trail” Saturday morning October 15, 2016, at the Tenth Annual Conference of the Smoky Hill Trail Association in Hays, Kansas. Registration to be held at Memorial Union, Fort Hays State University, 700 College Drive, Hays, Kansas, 67601.
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While researching for an article on George Armstrong Custer, I ran across this mention of the eye examination the cadets had to pass if they wanted to attend the West Point Military Academy.
“Visual acuity was tested by having the aspirant tell whether a dime, held up fourteen feet away, was ‘heads’ or ‘tails.”
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Sad. Disappointed. Embarrassed.
Those are the feelings I had after reading Larry McMurtry’s new book about George Armstrong Custer. I’m a huge fan of Lonesome Dove and anticipated a similar caliber work on Custer but it was a great disappointment. Besides that, I was sad and embarrassed that McMurtry’s name was on this book.
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Dad has completed the manuscript for his new book about George Armstrong Custer and is now wrapping up the editing process. Soon it will be off to publication. He has done extensive research for this project which will be readily apparent in the text.
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BENNINGTON — A voracious reader from childhood, Rod Beemer remembered the day in 1960 when he purchased an entire set of the Encyclopædia Britannica with his own money.
It was a proud moment until his mother, a teacher, found out how much her 18-year-old son had spent on the multivolume set — nearly $700.
“My mom told me she could have bought the books for half the price,” he said.
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