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Author : Paul Andrew Hutton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806134659
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 : Jay Monaghan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803257320
"The Custer literature is voluminous and most of it is highly controversial. Through the tangle of charges and countercharges Jay Monaghan cuts a clear path in his fresh account of Custer's whole career. Where possible, Monaghan relies on original sources, and he appraises them with the sound judgment of the practiced historian he is. He is sympathetic with Custer but does not hesitate to show the man's foibles and failures. He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. . . ."
Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250028507
From George Armstrong Custer's graduation from West Point to the daring cavalry charges that propelled him to the rank of General and national fame at age twenty-three to an unlikely romance with his eventual wife Libbie Bacon, Custer's exploits are the stuff of legend. Always leading his men from the front with a personal courage seldom seen before or since, he was a key part of nearly every major engagement in the east. Not only did Custer capture the first battle flag taken by the Union Army and receive the white flag of surrender at Appomattox, but his field generalship at Gettysburg against Confederate cavalry General Jeb Stuart had historic implications in changing the course of that pivotal battle. For decades, historians have looked at Custer strictly through the lens of his death on the frontier, casting him as a failure. While the events that took place at the Little Big Horn are illustrative of America's bloody westward expansion, they have unjustly eclipsed Custer's otherwise extraordinarily life and outstanding career. This biography of thundering cannons, pounding hooves, and stunning successes tells the story of one of history's most dynamic and misunderstood figures. Award-winning historian Thom Hatch reexamines Custer's early career to rebalance the scales and show why Custer's epic fall could never have happened without the spectacular rise that made him an American legend.
Author : Dennis B. Fradin
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761421245
Discusses the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including the events leading up to the battle and its aftermath.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1497659256
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages. Both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.
Author : Frederick J. Chiaventone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2002-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743241797
This historical fiction dramatically tells the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn through the eyes of ordinary soldiers and warriors and vividly describes the fatigue, grime, sweat, fear, heartbreak, and carnage of frontier warfare."A Road We Do Not Know" . . . brings a fresh and moving sensibility to the story of Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse, those icons whose lives came together at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. A fine novel, compellingly written.W.E.B. Griffin, author of "Brotherhood of War" Frederick Chiaventone tells an important, gripping and instructive tale.Winston F. Groom, author of "Forrest Gump"
Author : Evan S. Connell
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0374708738
Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
Author : W. A. Graham
Publisher : Stackpole Classics
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
'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 : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451626215
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic defeat clearly signaled the end of the Indian Wars--and brought to a close the great narrative of western expansion.
Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Generals
ISBN :