The real Custer : from boy general to tragic hero
(2014)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/CUSTER,G

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/CUSTER,G Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2014]
DESCRIPTION

xvi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781621572091 (hbk.), 1621572099 (hbk.), 9781621572091, 1621572099 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"My voice is for war!" -- Custer the goat -- The brotherhood broken -- "A slim, long-haired boy, carelessly dressed" -- "I promise that you shall hear of me" -- "Conspicuous gallantry" -- Gettysburg -- The "daring, terrible demon" of battle -- The Buckland races -- The Dahlgren Affair -- Little Phil -- Into the Valley -- "Let the sword decide the contest" -- Custer's counterinsurgency -- "Custer is a trump" -- "Fighting like a Viking" -- "Custer against the world" -- "Like the charge of a Sioux chieftain" -- The "long-haired hero of the lash" -- The "swing around the circle" -- Court-martial -- Washita -- Custer on the plains -- The great buffalo hunt -- Battle on the Yellowstone -- Custer's Gulch -- Grant's revenge -- "Don't be greedy" -- A ridge too far -- "He will never fight anymore"

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