Thinking Sideways: Did Frank Finkel survive the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

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🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In 1920 a man living in Washington state claimed to be the only survivor of the famed Battle of the Little Big Horn. Was Frank Finkel there or was he just another one of the many attention seekers who hoped to attach themselves to the story?

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0:58.4	Well, hey there and welcome to another episode of Thinking sideways. I am Steve as usual joined by
1:05.0	Devon and Joe and as per you's what I don't know, gotta hate to think what okay whose fault is it
1:13.4	that I picked up the word you's is it you? Yeah, it's their fault. It should be as per always. As per
1:18.6	usual, because usual is not a word that you can abbreviate or shortened is not is not is not is not
1:28.3	as usual, we have another mystery for you this week and it is a historical mystery. So it's a,
1:35.1	you know, we're getting off the murder train. No, no, we're gonna get back on, don't worry.
1:39.9	Well, and there well, there is a lot of murder in the story. That's true. Okay.
1:43.5	Killin' here. So this week we are going to talk about the historical mystery, which is,
1:49.6	did anyone who was with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer survive when he took the five
1:56.6	companies of the seventh Calvary that were under his command at that time into the Indian territory
2:04.3	near the Little Big Horn River in Montana on June 25th 1876. Yeah, and actually a lot of people
2:12.8	survived the Little Big Horn. Well, the people that were with Custer specifically did. Yeah, those guys
2:18.8	did. Yeah, well we'll get into that. So the title of this is gonna be like an entire paragraph
2:24.8	No, it'll be very simple when I when I title it on the episode thing. So anyone who was with
2:30.0	Lieutenant Colonel George. No, that was gonna long. That's not good enough. Let's get into the story.
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