Riding With Custer

Author : James Harvey Kidd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803277814

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Riding with Custer by James Harvey Kidd Pdf

Riding with Custer is a rousing and vivid illustration of the tactical worth of cavalry in the army. Captain James H. Kidd raised his own company, engaged in more than sixty battles, rose to colonel in 1864, and after conspicuous valor in the Valley campaign of that year succeeded Custer as commander of the Michigan Brigade. When he wrote these memoirs several decades after the war, his recollections were sharp and indelible--among them the experience of fighting with Custer at Gettysburg, Falling Waters, the Wilderness, Yellow tavern, and Cedar Creek. He describes life on the move in all kinds of weather and terrain, the sensation of combat, the pleasure of a cup of coffee, and, besides Custer, such famous generals as Judson Kilpatrick, Phil Sheridan and Wesley Merritt.

Author : Deborah King
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0099745704

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Custer by Deborah King Pdf

Author : Thomas Albert Curry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:27004229

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Riding for Custer by Thomas Albert Curry Pdf

Author : Tom Curry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510023209197

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Riding for Custer by Tom Curry Pdf

Author : Tom Curry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1408491125

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Riding for Custer by Tom Curry Pdf

Custer's Seventh Cavalry was called in to protect settlers. Riding as Chief of Scouts was the Rio Kid. Another more treacherousforce was driving the Indians to massacre. The Rio Kid had to shoot his way to the truth.

Author : Carl F. Day
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806136871

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Tom Custer by Carl F. Day Pdf

Few names in American history are as recognizable as George Armstrong Custer. His fame, or infamy, all but overshadows everyone in his circle of family, friends, and enemies. Among those often overlooked is his younger brother, Thomas Ward Custer. In this biography - the first to document the life of Tom Custer - Carl F. Day reveals the public and private life of this notable American soldier. Born in 1845, Tom Custer enlisted in the Union Army in 1861. He saw action in Kentucky and Tennessee before being transferred to his brother George's command in Virginia. At the end of the war he received the Medal of Honor twice - the first man in American history and the only Federal soldier in the Civil War to do so. He went on to participate in the Battle of the Washita, Stanley's Yellowstone Expedition, the Black Hills expedition, and, of course, the final march to the Little Bighorn, where along with his brother George he met his death in 1876. Tom Custer was very much his own man. His private life was not entirely happy. He never married, although he spent his life searching for a suitable female companion. His public service, however, earned him the status of an American hero.

Author : Edward Caudill,Paul Ashdown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442251878

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Inventing Custer by Edward Caudill,Paul Ashdown Pdf

Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines, but only a few among the many battles with the Plains Indians. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing Custer, Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown bridge the gap between the Custer who truly existed and the one we’ve immortalized and mythologized into legend in our generally accepted reading of American history and his significance to it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Battles
ISBN : OCLC:671281351

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Riding with Custer by Anonim Pdf

Late in February 1864 General George A. Custer with the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry and the 5th U.S. Cavalry crossed the Rapidan on a raid into Virginia. The only civilian with Custer was Alfred R. Waud, artist for Harper's Weekly. In this account which appeared in Harper's on March 26, 1864 Waud described his own impressions of the raid. His article was accompanied in the same issue with a double-page spread of sketches depicting incidents of the mission.

Author : Brian W. Dippie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803265921

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Custer's Last Stand by Brian W. Dippie Pdf

Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.

Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307475947

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Custer's Trials by T.J. Stiles Pdf

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History 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 capable yet insecure man, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (court-martialed twice in six years) and the new corporate economy, a wartime emancipator who rejected racial equality. Stiles argues that, although Custer was justly noted for his exploits on the western frontier, he also played a central role as both a wide-ranging participant and polarizing public figure in his extraordinary, transformational time—a time of civil war, emancipation, brutality toward Native Americans, and, finally, the Industrial Revolution—even as he became one of its casualties. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation. It casts surprising new light on one of the best-known figures of American history, a subject of seemingly endless fascination.

Author : Thomas Powers
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375714306

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The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers Pdf

With the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century, whose victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat ever inflicted on the frontier army. But after surrendering to federal troops, Crazy Horse was killed in custody for reasons which have been fiercely debated for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the story behind this official killing.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497659254

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Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages. Both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.

Author : Marguerite Merington
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803281382

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The Custer Story by Marguerite Merington Pdf

Selected letters offer an inside look at the relationship of Custer and his wife, and their impressions of frontier life, the Civil War, and politics

Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250028518

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Glorious War by Thom Hatch Pdf

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.

Author : Evan S. Connell
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374708733

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Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell Pdf

Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.