If you are familiar with Custer's Last Stand/ The Battle of the Little Bighorn, you are probably familiar with the controversy surrounding Frederick WIlliam Benteen.

Some have accused Benteen of disobeying George Armstrong Custer’s final command of “Come on. Big Village. Be Quick,” while others have credited him with being the "Savior of the Seventh" who kept the remaining Seventh Cavalry alive on June 25, 1876.

No one knew him better than his wife, Kate. The letters, photos, poems, pictures, scrapbook and newspaper articles that she kept help paint a full picture of the man, the details in his life that shaped him, as well as illuminate the ins-and-outs of life on the miltary frontier.

There is family drama, military infighting, children who die too young, and career successes that go unnoticed. And this is all before Fred Benteen even gets joins the Seventh Cavalry!

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