Download or read book Custer and the Tragedy of Myth written by John P. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer and the Little Bighorn written by Jim Donovan and published by Crestline. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major illustrated book to examine the life and death of General Custer.
Download or read book The Custer Myth written by W. A. Graham and published by Stackpole Classics. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book Custer s Last Stand written by Brian W. Dippie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Inventing Custer written by Edward Caudill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Real Custer written by James S. Robbins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer—from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated last in his class at West Point, went on to prove himself again and again as an extremely skilled cavalry leader. Robbins argues that Custer's undoing was his bold and cocky attitude, which caused the Army's bloodiest defeat in the Indian Wars. Robbins also dives into Custer’s personal life, exploring his letters and other personal documents to reveal who he was as a person, underneath the military leader. The Real Custer is an exciting and valuable contribution to the legend and history of Custer that will delight Custer fans as well as readers new to the legend.
Download or read book Custer Survivor written by John P. Koster and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proof of survivor at Little Big Horn. History Channel shows episode repeatedly.
Download or read book Custer and the Great Controversy written by Robert M. Utley and published by Westernlore Publications. This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Custer and the Great Controversy was the first book to focus on the origins of what has come to be called the Custer myth. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has always been wrapped in mystery and controversy because none of Custer's men survived to tell what happened, because press accounts circulated much misinformation and editors politicized the event, because popular writers repeated the errors of journalists, because a court of inquiry issued in bitter debate, and because Indian testimony was hard to gauge. This book, originally published in 1962, helps the reader understand the sources of the confusion and controversy surrounding the Custer fight and the beginning of the legend.
Download or read book Custer Survivor written by John Koster and published by History Publishing Company LLC. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth that all members of the five companies of the Seventh Cavalry with General Custer at the battle of the Little Big Horn were killed by the Sioux and the Cheyenne is disproved by author and historian John Koster. Meticulous research by the author along with forensic evidence proves that one man did survive. Introduction by Prof. Louise Barnett, Rutgers University and author of Touched by Fire. Custer Survivor is the story of the man, how he escaped, his ensuing ordeal and the subsequent years of his successful life. This is the book that corrects the record and makes complete the history of Custer's Last Stand. New evidence proves that this myth is the truth.
Download or read book Shattering the Myth written by Kevin M. Sullivan and published by Professional Press (NC). This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Custer Legend written by Earl Kaye Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Custer written by John Phillip Langellier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer written by John Phillip Langellier and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer s Last Stand written by Norman Maclean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim—as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. When he died in 1990, Maclean left behind an earlier unfinished project, on a topic that had held his attention for decades: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The portions of that writing that remain reveal a deep interest not only in the battle itself but also its afterlife—how historical events influence popular culture and how retellings revise the past. Summarizing the events from the various perspectives of the Americans, the Sioux, and the Cheyenne, Maclean explains why the battle lives on in our imagination. Custer’s “last stand” provides all the elements—the characters, the plot, and the backdrop—of the perfect dramatic tragedy. And the way we retell history, argues Maclean, is intimately tied to how we choose to memorialize defeat.
Download or read book Legend Into History written by Charles Kuhlman and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Analytical Study Of The Battle Of Big Horn.
