General Custer's Last Stand town which has just two 居住（者）s is up for $250,000 at auction

Custer's Last Stand: George Armstrong Custer made his last stand in 1876 against Sioux and Cheyenne 軍人s. He was killed along with 200 U.S. Cavalry 兵士s. Seen 権利 is his wife, Elizabeth Bacon Cluster

Custer had been a successful Union Army 指揮官 in the Civil War before he was 派遣（する）d to 戦後の （選挙などの）運動をするs, 誘発する／引き起こすd by Western 拡大 and driven by the U.S. 政府, 目的（とする）d at 軍隊ing Plains Indians の上に 保留（地）／予約s.

On June 25, 1876, the 36-year-old Custer and more than 200 7th U.S. Cavalry 兵士s were killed by Sioux 軍人s 含むing Crazy Horse and Cheyenne 軍隊s in the 領土 of Montana in a 戦う／戦い that has gone 負かす／撃墜する in history.

'It's one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な sagas of the American West with a cast of characters second to 非，不，無,' said James Donovan, author of the 2008 history, 'A Terrible Glory: Custer and the L ittle Bighorn - the Last 広大な／多数の／重要な 戦う／戦い of the American West.'

Mystery 一面に覆う／毛布s a major U.S. 軍の 敗北・負かす that 生成するd incomplete and 相反する accounts by 目撃者s.

'There are three known facts about Custer and the Little Bighorn: Custer （機の）カム, Custer saw, Custer got his derriere whipped,' said Sandy Barnard, author of the 2005 'Where Custer Fell' and other 調書をとる／予約するs tied to the 戦う／戦い.

Keen to sell: Last August Chris Kortlander, pictured, put the town on eBay for $6,900,000 説 it was 'an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 適切な時期 to own a rich piece of American history'

Correspondence: Elizabeth Bacon Cluster's manuscripts are 含むd in the sale of the town

Historians credit Elizabeth Bacon Custer, or Libbie, author of three 調書をとる／予約するs about her life with Custer, for fostering a fascination with him that 繁栄するs 136 years after his death in a 戦う／戦い popularly referred to as 'Custer's Last Stand.'

'Libbie went on a 使節団 to 海難救助 his good 指名する and to refurbish his 評判,' said Lynn Houze, assistant museum curator at the Buffalo 法案 Historical 中心 in Cody, Wyoming.

In 2004, Kortlander bought the thousands of manuscripts, 文書s and historic photographs that 構成する the Elizabeth Bacon Custer collection, which is not cataloged.

戦う／戦い of the Little Bighorn: On June 25, 1876, the 36-year-old Custer and more than 200 7th U.S. Cavalry 兵士s were killed by Sioux 軍人s

He believes a love letter to Custer from another woman and a translation - yet to be undertaken - of the collection's shorthand copies of correspondence between Custer and his wife may 供給する new insights on a 関係 Barnard 述べるd as 'one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な love 事件／事情／状勢s of history.'

No scholar has fully 診察するd the collection, which 含むs Libbie's 公式文書，認めるs about 19th century frontiersman William F. 'Buffalo 法案' Cody, whose traveling show about the 'wild' American West 始める，決める its image for 世代s.

Historians and writers who have reviewed select 文書s from the collection said it 含む／封じ込めるs items of historical and cultural 利益／興味.

'We do see it as a 価値のある collection,' said Jeremy Johnston, archivist with the Buffalo 法案 Cody Historical 中心.

追加するd author Barnard, 'It's a treasure trove that needs to be 地雷d.'

The Tulsa, Oklahoma, auction house is to 申し込む／申し出 買い手's choice with an 開始 企て，努力，提案 of $250,000 for Garryowen, 指名するd after the song Custer 可決する・採択するd for the 7th Cavalry, and the manuscript collection to online and onsite 入札者s on August 15.

'Garryowen is in a league of its own,' said Amy Bates, 長，指導者 marketing officer for Williams & Williams.
Kortlander, who along with a 管理人 are the town's only 居住（者）s, said he hopes both the town and the collection will go to a 単独の 入札者 献身的な to building on a 遺産／遺物 Kortlander has 形態／調整d for 19 years.

'One 推論する／理由 for an auction is to attract that special person who wants to carry the たいまつ,' he said.

Last August Kortlander put the town on eBay for $6,900,000 説 it was 'an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 適切な時期 to own a rich piece of American history.'