Custerology : the enduring legacy of the Indian wars and George Armstrong Custer / Michael A. Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Michael A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876.

Custer, George A.

Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer's direct command was killed. It's easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with Custerology, Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustration

Introduction

One. Ghost Dancing on Last Stand Hill

Two. Being Custer

Three. Lives on the Plains

Four. Into the Black Hills

Five. Testimony in Translation

Six. Little Bighorn Forever

EPILOGUE

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426353

9781282426351

1282426354

9780226201481

0226201481

OCLC:

527704914