Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth
- ISBN-10
- 0803265921
- ISBN-13
- 9780803265929
- Series
- Custer's Last Stand
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-01-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Brian W. Dippie
Description
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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