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Title: Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend by Robert M. Utley, Brian W. Dippie ISBN: 0-8032-9561-8 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Series of Essays on Why Custer Became a Legend
Comment: Early book by the great western writer Robert Utley provides a brief description of the Indian situation that evolved before the LBH and then he provides an abbreviated but well described sequence of battle events. Utley then describes the press' role in developing the story that caught General Sherman and Sheridan off guard as Sherman provides Terry's second controversial report to a reporter by accident. Utley describes the fireworks that arises between Custer supporters such as his old classmate Confederate Rosser and Reno and other military men such as Colonel Hughes, Terry's adjutant and relative. The controversy is even made even more complex by the chapter spent on the Indian's version of events that has elements of truth combined with confusing facts or half truths perhaps aggravated by poor translations and the Indians unique individualistic versions of battle that lack time and spatial realities. Finally, Utley tackles a number of the mythical stories about Custer and the LBH including Frederick Whitacker's quick print and fanciful book on Custer that became a best seller. The best part of this chapter is the discussion about the last four crow scouts to see Custer particularly the debate over when Curley departed from Custer. An excellent book that frames the controversies about Custer's battle which also explains the fascination, nothing is totally certian but amongst all the testimony and physical evidence, somewhere lies the truth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Custer and the Great Contorversy.
Comment: Good reading offers some good insight into the whole Custer and Little Bighorn 'fiasco'! I'm more prepared now to find out what possibly happened on that fateful day. The case has been well made that there may 'never' be a definitive conclusion?
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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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Title: Custer: Cavalier in Buckskin by Robert Marshall Utley, Robert M. ISBN: 0806133473 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Custer Myth by W. A. Graham ISBN: 0811727262 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer by Gregory J. W. Urwin, Lawrence A. Frost ISBN: 0803295561 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn by Douglas D. Scott, Richard A., Jr. Fox, Melissa A. Connor, Dick Harmon ISBN: 0806132922 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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