Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
ISBN-10
0806143983
ISBN-13
9780806143989
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
2013
Author
James E. Mueller

Description

"So fit a death": Custer's Last Stand -- "Horrible!": the news shocks the nation -- "The blood of these brave men": assessing the blame for defeat -- "A little cheap political capital": the Little Bighorn and the presidential campaign -- "That old rebel spirit": the Hamburg Massacre bumps Custer off the front page -- "Asses who are braying for extermination": the Indians in Little Bighorn coverage -- "Custer's death was Sioux-icide": humor and the Little Bighorn -- "Duty and valor": the focus of Little Bighorn coverage.

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