For Custer
Edited By
Howard Sharp
Produced By
Amanda Pollak
Written and Directed By
Stephen Ives
Narrated By
Michael Murphy
Associate Producer
Lauren DeFilippo
Music By
Peter Rundquist
Production Associate
Kyle Kelley
Director of Photography
Andrew Young
Additional Cinematography
Kyle Kelley
Assistant Editor
Gina Tolentino
Sound Recording
John Zecca
Production Controller
Andrew Hall
Voiceover Artists
Josh Hamilton
Jennifer Lee Andrews
Art Director
Gonzalo Cordoba
Key Costume
Maggie MacFarland
Make-Up Artist
Karen Stein
Grip and Electric
Adam Garel-Frantzen
Special Effects
Bobby Brooks
Re-Enactor Coordinators
Ray Heiser
Jim Hatzell
Bobby Brooks
Re-Enactors
John Barrows
Richard L. Bickel
Brian Carrico
Robert Old Coyote Jr.
John E. Dahl
James Foreman
Ray Heiser
Howard Main
Timothy Sapp
John Sides
Burdick Two Leggins
Auggie Zierlein
Additional Assistant Editing
Casey Cayko
Production Assistants
Mariah Doran
Amy McClure
Scott Larkin
Bobby Colombo
Chad Heiser
Office Production Assistants
Morgan Johnson
Mariah Doran
Sarah Walsh
Ellie Merz
Rachel Volpe
Owen Cook
Connie Honeycutt
Ryan Dann
Additional Research
Joy Conley
Sound Design
Ira Spiegel
Dialogue Editor
Marlena Grzaslewicz
Assistant Sound Editor
Dan Fulton
Post Production Facility
Du-Art Film and Video
Conforming Editor
David Gauff
Colorist
Jane Tolmachyov
Post Production Project Manager
Tim Werenko
Re-Recording Mixer
Matt Gundy
Stills Animation By
Gina Tolentino
Owen Cook
Visual Effects
Handcranked Productions
Archival Materials Courtesy Of
Image # 31706, American Museum of Natural History, Library
Archives of Michigan
Bill Dowling Photography
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Corbis
The Denver Public Library, Western History Collection
Fort Davis National Historic Site - National Park Service
Getty Images
G.A. Custer, His Life & Times by Glenwood J. Swanson
Harrison County Historical Society
Haynes Foundation Collection, Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT
Rev. Vincent Heier
History Colorado
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Kansas State Historical Society
Library Company of Philadelphia
Library of Congress
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT
Monroe County Historical Museum Archives
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
National Archives and Records Administration
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Nebraska State Historical Society
Bill Nelson
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs/Picture Collection/General Research Division, The New York Public Library
Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society
Paul Andrew Hutton Collection
State Archives of the South Dakota State Historical Society
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Streamline Films, Inc.
Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Richard Throssel Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
The West Film Archive
West Point Museum Collection, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Consultant
Nathaniel Philbrick
Legal Services
The Law Offices of James Kendrick
Production Accounting
Silver, Laski and Weisel
Insignia Films Directors
John T. Sughrue
Robert A. Wilson
Special Thanks
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary
Pryor Creek Ranch
Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
Monroe County Historical Society
Glenwood and Joanne Swanson
Public Yards Auction, Billings, Montana
Bob Cook
Susan Watt
Montana Film Commission
Paul Hutton
Vincent Heier
Marcy Tatarka
MDU Resources
George McDonald
Russell Mosher
Shirley Leckie Reed
Scott Larkin
Tracy Potter
Julie Johnson
Virginia City, Montana
Chris Kull
Sharon Small
John Barrows
Charmaine Wawrzyniec
For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Post Production
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Series Designer
Alison Kennedy
On-Line Editor
Spencer Gentry
Sound Mix
John Jenkins
Series Theme
Joel Goodman
Web
Molly Jacobs
Tory Starr
Production Manager
Nancy Sherman
Legal
Jay Fialkov
Janice Flood
Scott Kardel
Project Administration
Susana Fernandes
Pamela Gaudiano
Lauren Noyes
Marketing & Publicity
Mary Lugo
Cara White
Project Manager
Lauren Prestileo
Series Manager
James E. Dunford
Coordinating Producer
Susan Mottau
Series Producer
Susan Bellows
Senior Producer
Sharon Grimberg
Executive Producer
Mark Samels
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From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp, and George Custer to Geronimo, the real-life people who helped tame the west would shape the western heroes celebrated in film and television for decades.
