[PDF] The Custer Myth eBook

Author : W. A. Graham
Publisher : Stackpole Classics
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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'The Custer story began in controversy and in dispute; because of Custer's death in a blaze of glory that became the setting for propaganda which caught and held, and still holds, the imagination of the American people. What began in controversy and dispute has ended in Myth; a myth built, like other myths, upon actual data and events, magnified, distorted and disproportioned by fiction, invention, imagination and speculation.

Author : Jim Donovan
Publisher : Crestline
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0785825894

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This is the first major illustrated book to examine the life and death of General Custer.

Author : Brian W. Dippie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803265929

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Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806130965

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Georger Armstrong Custer’s death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.

Author : Paul Andrew Hutton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806134659

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Here is Custer as seen by himself, his contemporaries, and leading scholars. Combining first-person narratives, essays, and photographs, this book provides a complete introduction to Custer's controversial personality and career and the evolution of the Custer myth.

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466871393

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The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating and misunderstood figures in American history. Distinguished historian Robert M. Utley has forged a compelling portrait of Sitting Bull, presenting the Lakota perspective for the first time and rendering the most unbiased, historically accurate, and vivid portrait of the man to date. The Sitting Bull who emerges in this fast-paced narrative is a complex, towering figure: a great warrior whose skill and bravery in battle were unparalleled; the spiritual leader of his people; a dignified but ultimately tragically stubborn defender of the traditional ways against the steadfast and unwelcome encroachment of the white man.

Author : Edward Caudill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1442251875

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Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown bridge the gap between the Custer who lived and the one we’ve immortalized and mythologized into legend. While too many books about Custer treat the Civil War period only as a prelude to the Little Bighorn, Caudill and Ashdown present him as a product of the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, and the Plains Indian Wars. They explain how Custer became mythic, shaped by the press and changing sentiments toward American Indians, and show the many ways the myth has evolved and will continue to evolve as the United States continues to change.

Author : John P. Koster
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781933909035

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Proof of survivor at Little Big Horn. History Channel shows episode repeatedly.