On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:02:22AM -0500, Janice McDonald wrote: > I am not sure either. I had a history professor who was a Little Big > Horn/Custer buff. He took us to his home, where he had a locked room > containing stuff I really would have thought you'd find in a museum. > he had a lock.of custer's hair (it really was yellow!), a letter from > custer to his family, many guns, a tomahawk (the weight and leverage > of it would make it easy to kill someone), many many indian artifacts, > a lot of this stuff was not just from little big horn so could have > been from elsewhere, but I was very impresed with the stirrups, not > just that they were carved, but were very glossy and worn where a foot > would have rested, and he had some stuff from Abraham Lincoln, letters > etc and an actual scalp. yikes.
eek for the scalp! that would totally creep me out. the rest of the collection sounds extremely cool, i'm glad he was a teacher and shared that with his students. --vicka
