Custerology: the enduring legacy of the Indian wars and George Armstrong Custer
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1. Verfasser: Elliott, Michael A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and index
Ghost dancing on Last Stand Hill : Crow Agency, Montana -- Being Custer : Monroe, Michigan -- Lives on the plains : Cheyenne, Oklahoma -- Into the Black Hills : Rapid City, South Dakota -- Testimony in translation : the library -- Little Bighorn forever : Hardin, Montana; Garryowen, Montana -- Epilogue : Indian country
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 Bighorn with contemporary commemorat
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ISBN:0226201481
9780226201481

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