A Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Volume 2: From Appomattox to the Little Big Horn - Softcover

Whittaker, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803297432 ISBN 13: 9780803297432

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

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This first biography of General George A. Custer was published late in 1876, only months after the disaster at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. A Complete Life was the beginning of a legend, and Frderick Whittaker did more than anyone else except Libby Custer to make the flamboyant Boy General a permanent resident of the national consciousness.

Quite aside from its contribution to the public image of Custer, this important book placed him and his associates against a concrete background of onrushing events. Drawing on newspaper reports and the general's own words, Whittaker captures the excitement of the era. Continuing the story of Custer from Volume 1, which dealt with his childhood in Ohio, cadetship at West Point, courtship of Elizabeth Bacon, and service as a cavalryman in the Civil War, Volume 2 takes Custer west to head up the newly created Seventh Cavalry and fight the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Sioux. Whittaker gives full scope to Custer's brushes with authority, his changeable relations with his troops, and his famous expeditions, ending with a memorable description of his last stand at the Little Big Horn in June 1876.

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Robert M. Utley is a leading historian of the western frontier whose book include Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (University of Nebraska Press, 1989).

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Volume 2 of the series, which takes Custer west to head up the newly created Seventh Cavalry and fight the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Sioux. Whittaker gives full scope to Custer's brushes with authority, his changeable relations with his troops, and his famous expeditions, ending with a memorable description of his last stand at the Little Big Horn in June 1876.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803297432
• ISBN 13: 9780803297432
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314
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