August 4, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 7
Glen Rock
‘Custer Survivor’ in revised second printing
The revised second printing of “Custer Survivor” by Glen Rock author John Koster will be in the warehouse and available in bookstores and online by mid-August, according to publisher Don Bracken of History Publishing Company. The new printing will include three pages of facsimile documents not shown in the first printing, which offer visual confirmation of the fact that Frank Finkel, a prosperous farmer from the State of Washington, was Second Sergeant August Finckle of C Company of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry in 1876. Sergeant Finckle was seen riding down to the valley of the Little Bighorn by two of the last troopers to drop out of the column, Sergeant Daniel Knipe and Private Peter Thompson. His best friend, Charles Windolph, rode to the battlefield two days after the destruction of the five companies under Custer to give Finckle’s body a decent burial -- and reported the he couldn’t find the body after an extensive search. (Windolph, who lived to be 98 and died in 1950, was the last white survivor of the 12 companies that fought at the Little Bighorn. Rain-In-The-Face, a Lakota warrior at the Little Bighorn, reported in 1893 that one trooper escaped and rode past the Hunkpapa Lakota camp headed toward Tulluck’s Creek, which Finkel described independently in his 1920 account of his escape before a Kiwanis Meeting attended by his congressman, Dr. John Summers, and other citizens of Dayton who believed in his honesty. Documents in the new printing of the book include a letter from the Columbia County Courthouse, which confirms that the subject was named Finckle when he first arrived in Dayton, Washington around 1880, and that his name spelling later drifted to Finkle and then to Finkel. Also included are letters from Finkel’s widow, Hermie Billmeyer, and from the Custer Memorial Battlefield (now the Little Bighorn Memorial Battlefield) which show that Finckle and Finkel had the same incongruous six-foot-plus height, pale eyes and dark hair. (Specimens of handwriting already in the book and examined by experts have already confirmed that both Finckle and Finkel had the same handwriting despite the spelling shift.) Other new data includes background from Finkel relatives in Ohio, Washington State, and Oregon, which provide some genealogical information and essentially confirm identity of Finkel as Finckle. Excerpts from highly favorable reviews in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, which appeared after the book was published in January, will be added to the back cover. Koster is the author of a number of articles on American Indians and the U.S. Army in “American Heritage, “National Geographic,” “Wild West,” and in the UK with the Marshall Cavendish syndicate.
Author of ‘Custer Survivor,’ John Koster.
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