[CUSTER’S LAST STAND]. Rare-to-Find Rag Paper Edition of the “St. Louis Globe-Democrat”, New Series. Vol. 2, No. 50. St. Louis, July 8, 1876. 12 folio pages including 4 pages of the Supplemental Sheet on special limited edition rag paper. Each page approximately 584 x 458 mm. Left margins chipped, indicating that this issue had been excised from a book. Minor occasional rubbing, one horizontal and one vertical crease, a small sticker (“Sec. of State”) on the front page, obscuring a few words of the article on Custer. On pp. 1-2 is a large article on Custer’s last stand: “Too Brave / Terry Tells How the Gallant Custer Blundered / A Charge Heroic as That at Balaklava / But Equally Hopeless and Disastrous in Results / Ghastly Details of the Sioux Slaughter. / Every Man in the Command Falls Fighting. / What Sherman and Sheridan Have to Say. / A Relentless War of Extermination Advocated. / Something About the Treaty of Sixty-Eight. / The Transfer of the Indian Bureau a Forgone Conclusion.” Custer commanded 260 men at the Battle of Little Bighorn, all of whom died against a far superior Lakota-Sioux army (estimates vary between 1,800 to 3,000 warriors). The death of Custer and his men on June 25, 1876, became an excuse for the U.S. Government to adopt a scorched-earth policy against Native American tribes.