Custer

  • Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer
    By Jay Monaghan

    He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. . . ." This informative book covers the life of General George Armstrong Custer.

  • Custer
    By Larry McMurtry

    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 ...

  • Custer
    By Larry McMurtry

    (continuedfromfrontflap) Crazy Horse, Red Cloud—McMurtry also argues that Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics ...

  • Custer: Lessons in Leadership
    By Duane Schultz, Wesley K. Clark

    By then he had not seen Libbie in six weeks, he told Smith, and promised to return by the time his wagons reached Fort Harker. Smith, still half-asleep, agreed. A few hours later Libbie Custer awoke to hear, as she described it, ...

  • Custer: Cavalier in Buckskin
    By Robert Marshall Utley

    ... see also Northern Cheyenne Indians ; Southern Cheyenne Indians Hancock campaign of 1867 : 173 Devil's Lake ( Dak . ) ... American soldiers : 45 , 46-48 , 78 " Ain't I Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness " ( song ) : 70 Alexandria ( La . ) ...

  • Custer
    By Jeffry D. Wert

    George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost.

  • Custer
    By Jeffry D. Wert

    George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost.

  • Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer
    By Jay Monaghan

    The best book yet written about Custer and the full significance of his career. . . . Deserves a medal of honor for extraordinary service in the great cause of making history live.OCo"Chicago Tribune""

  • Custer
    By Larry McMurtry

    This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the West’s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from “one of America’s great storytellers” (The Wall Street Journal).

  • Custer: The Making of a Young General
    By Edward G. Longacre

    But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer, noted Civil War historian Edward G. Longacre provides fascinating insight into this often-overlooked period in Custer's life.

  • Custer: From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn
    By Gary L. Bloomfield, Ted Behncke

    This is the first Custer biography to focus on these lesser-known parts of his life in great detail.

  • Custer: Lessons in Leadership
    By Duane Schultz

    Here, author Duane Schultz shows why he remains one of the most fascinating figures in American military history.