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Title: Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth by Brian W. Dippie ISBN: 0-8032-6592-1 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful Examination of the American Mythology
Comment: I read this book over the summer, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I may be biased (I have had classes under Dr. Dippie) but I found the book to be well thought out and a very fascinating look at a branch of American history that a lot of people forget about when they get concerned with who did what when. This book deals with the development of the American mythology, and is a delight to read. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: All things Custer
Comment: When I bought this book I was looking for serious military/historical chronology of what happened at the Little Big Horn that hot Sunday of July in 1876. This book spends exactly 12 pages explaining the battle. The rest of the book is broken into sections describing how the event affected the American Psyche. Paintings of The Last Stand, poerty describing The Last Stand, novels, movies and jokes related to The Last Stand are all examined in depth here. There is a 12 page section of photos and illustrations. The defeat of an American army in the field by Indians on the 100th birthday of The United States sent shock waves through the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition where the visiting people were studying the wonders of modern technology, convinced that nothing could stop the progress of science and thus this country's western expansion. The different views of Custer and indeed our very government can be seen by how differently the event has been portrayed by various forms of the media. As an example of this think of any movies you may have seen about the battle, the older ones are very sympathtic towards the 7th Calvalry, showing the Indians as blood thirsty savages while the newer crop of films has reversed the roles of who was the blood thirsty savage. If you are looking for a hard core military examination of the battle pass on the book, if you are interested in an unusual study of the American response to an event no one ever expected, one which continues to fascinate us to this day, this book is for you.
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Title: The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America by Robert G. Athearn, Elliott West ISBN: 0700603778 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Far Western Frontier 1830-1860 (Historians of the Frontier and American West) by Ray Allen Billington ISBN: 0826315852 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past by William Cronon, Jay Gitlin, George A. Miles, George Jay, Miles Jay ISBN: 0393310639 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Little Bighorn Remembered : The Untold Indian Story of Custer's Last Stand by Herman J. Viola ISBN: 0812932560 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 11 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined by Richard Allan, Jr Fox, W. Raymond Wood ISBN: 0806129980 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.16 |
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