An award-winning historian recreates George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, putting to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Includes four maps.
Chicago Tribune , April 21 , 1876 Like everyone else on the frontier , Custer held James Fenimore Cooper responsible for misleading his postwar countrymen about the real nature of Indians . He criticized Cooper's romanticized image of ...
The diary of General Custer during the last year of his life in which he reflects on his career, the Civil War and his marriage.
He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. . . ." This informative book covers the life of General George Armstrong Custer.
ers, Mari Sandoz, popularized the Yellow Swallow story by including it in her well-received Cheyenne Autumn ... that both Monah- seetah and Custer's son—here named Yellow Bird—were present in the Indian village of Lakotas and Cheyennes ...
“ Custer's charge , ” Sheridan noted in his memoirs , " with Chapman on his flank and the rest of Wilson's division sustaining him , was brilliantly executed . Beginning at a walk , he increased his gait to a trot , and then at full ...
The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand.
A biography of the Civil War general known for his part in the disasterous battle at the Little Big Horn in 1876.
About the Author Douglas C. Jones served in the U.S. Army until his retirement in 1968. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin.
GEORGE ARMSTRONG OUSTER was born in New Rumley, Ohio, December 5, 1839.
George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost.