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Author : Robert Skimin,William E. Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Generals
ISBN : 1928746144
Skimin's imagined historical novel expands Custer's "luck" to 1880 when Gen. George Armstrong Custer becomes President of the United States and establishes the Great American Empire.
Author : Edgar I. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258183413
Author : Edgar I. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN : OCLC:15627599
Author : Edgar Irving Stewart
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806116323
This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American history about which much has been written - the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. It presents in graphic detail and on a vast canvas the great events and the small which reached a decisive crescendo in Custer’s fate. Here is no savage battle incident presented in isolation from other events, but a sweeping panorama of a whole ere-inept, hesitant, and tragic. To insure comprehensiveness, the author describes the pertinent facts of the Grant administration, the embitterment of the Great Plains tribes, and the deteriorating Civil War army. The book is the record not only of the dashing Seventh Cavalry and its leader but also of the Grant-Custer feud, Sitting Bull, the Belknap scandal, Rain-in-the-Face, the battle strategy of the Indians, and Custer’s military rivals. Particular note is taken of the effect on history of Custer’s recklessness and glory-seeking and of the superstitions and fatalistic determination of the Sioux and the Cheyennes. The Battle of the Little Big Horn, reconstructed in this account largely on Indian eyewitness testimony, climaxed the long-developing tragedy and provided a "smashing crescendo to the vacillating policy of the United States government...towards the Indians of the Great Plains." A four color reproduction of an oil painting by John Hauser, entitled "The Challenge," has been selected for the cover of Custer’s Luck. The original canvas is in the collection of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the publishers gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of that organization in making this reproduction possible.
Author : Edgar Irving Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN : OCLC:504719383
Author : Charles K. Hofling
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814318142
In this book, Hofling turns his attention to the psychological context in which Custer operated in order to understand the decisions which produced his final disaster.
Author : Brian W. Dippie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292772090
Between 1867 and 1875, George Armstrong Custer contributed fifteen letters under the apt pseudonym Nomad to the New York-based sportsman's journal Turf, Field and Farm. Previously available only in a collector's typescript edition, the Nomad letters offer valuable insight into the character of the Boy General as he gives expression to his abiding love for hunting, horses, and hounds. Vivid accounts of days in the field after buffalo and deer alternate with letters that attest to Custer's passion for Kentucky thoroughbreds and trotters and his devotion to his favorite hunting dogs. Moreover, the letters show Custer as a student of literature who constandy alluded to works of fiction and drama and who loved to quote poetry as he self-consciously honed his skills as a writer. The Nomad letters also open the way to controversy since three of the letters written in 1867, as Brian Dippie's careful annotations make clear, offer a strikingly different account of Custer's ill-starred induction into Indian fighting than the accepted version recorded five years later in his memoirs, My Life on the Plains. Composed only a few months after the abortive Hancock Expedition that led to Custer's court-martial and suspension from rank and pay for one year, the Nomad letters are full of a passion and venom absent from My Life on the Plains. They provide an immediate response to the events of 1867 that will interest all students of the Western Indian wars and of Custer's fascinating career.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428910522
Author : Terry Mixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947376365
After years of battle, Kelsey Bandar and Jared Mertz are finally ready to face the master AI enslaving the Terran Empire. With just a bit of luck, this nightmare will finally be over.Only luck can run out just when you need it the most.Outnumbered and outgunned, they must salvage victory from certain defeat. Failure means extermination, invasion, and the loss of everyone they love. Can they beat the odds just one more time?If you love military science fiction and grand adventure on a galaxy-spanning scale, grab "When Luck Runs Out" and the rest of The Empire of Bones Saga today!
Author : Paul Goble
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 080327033X
A Sioux warrior's account of the events surrounding the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451626216
A portrait of the nineteenth-century cavalry commander traces his rise from an unpromising West Point graduate to a distinguished military leader, covering his complicated marriage, mythologized defeat at Little Big Horn, and enduring legacy.
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786497942
In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony W. Durnford had much in common, from modes of dress to the way they died. This book interweaves the stories of the two soldiers and their final battles, revealing how, to an astonishing degree, similar personalities, aims, tactics, weapons, stupidity and a gross underestimation of the powers of the native people led to calamitous defeat.
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015077564014
Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101875841
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person—capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.
Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250028518
Glorious War, the thrilling and definitive biography of George Armstrong Custer's Civil War years, is nothing short of a heart-pounding cavalry charge through the battlefield heroics that thrust the gallant young officer into the national spotlight in the midst of the country's darkest hours. From West Point to the daring military actions that propelled him to the rank of general at age twenty-three to his unlikely romance with Libbie Bacon, Custer's exploits are the stuff of legend. Always leading his men from the front with a personal courage seldom seen before or since, he was a key part of nearly every major engagement in the east. Not only did Custer capture the first battle flag taken by the Union Army and receive the white flag of surrender at Appomattox, but his field generalship at Gettysburg against Confederate cavalry General Jeb Stuart had historic implications in changing the course of that pivotal battle. For decades, historians have looked at Custer strictly through the lens of his death on the frontier, his last stand, casting him as a failure. While some may say that the events that took place at the Little Big Horn are illustrative of America's bloody westward expansion, they have in the process unjustly eclipsed Custer's otherwise extraordinarily life and outstanding career and fall far short of encompassing his incredible service to his country. This biography of thundering cannons, pounding hooves, and stunning successes tells the true story of the origins of one of history's most dynamic and misunderstood figures. Award-winning historian Thom Hatch reexamines Custer's early career to rebalance the scales and show why Custer's epic fall could never have happened without the spectacular rise that made him an American legend.