©2005-2026 Steve Alexander

 

The Foremost Custer Living Historian

After years and years of traveling for reenactments, films and special historical events I’ve decided to focus my energies on writing and sharing my experiences through books specific to the life and times of General Custer and my own parallel adventures as the Foremost Custer Living Historian. -- Steve Alexander

Visit Amazon.com to purchase my writings: G. A. Custer to the Little Big Horn; Believe in the Bold: Custer and the Gettysburg Campaign; Dandy, General Custer's Little Brown Horse: A Fictionalized History of a Man and His Steed, and Boots and Bruises: My Life as Steve Alexander by General Custer.

Excerpt from “Boots and Bruises: My Life as Steve Alexander by General Custer”

Three young boys about eight or maybe nine years old run down a red graveled road toward an old, weathered, unpainted house with a rickety porch like you’d see in an old western movie.

            “We’ve got to hurry,” one of the boys blurts out.  “He comes out every day about this time.”

As they get closer, an old wizen of a man resembling Colonel Lloyd, portrayed by Lionel Barrymore in the Shirley Temple classic, “The Little Colonel,” steps out onto the porch and plants himself in an old rocking chair.  The old man is very slim, dressed in clothes from another century. He has long white hair, a bushy mustache and goatee of the same snowy color. His frock coat falls below his knees, and at his waist coat is a pocket watch with a chain and fancy fob. The watch snaps open as he consults the hour to be only interrupted by the youths’ enthusiasm.

            “Colonel!  Colonel!”  They shout in unison.

            “What is it boys?  What do you want?”

            “We want to hear your stories!  Tell us about the Old West.  Tell us about the Indians!”