Supplying Custer
Author: Gerald R. Clark
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781607813552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlends archaeology and history to gather new insights into army life at a field supply depot used to support Custer's cavalry
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Custer Victorious
Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780803295568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread-he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no chance of escape. . . ." So Gregory J. W Urwin pulls the reader into a scene describing not the Battle of the Little Big Horn but a Civil War engagement that George Armstrong Custer and his troop survived, thanks to strategy as much as naked courage. Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. Custer Victorious is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career. Urwin writes: "None of Custer's exploits against the Plains Indians could compare with those he performed while with the Army of the Potomac." The leader of a brigade called "the Wolverines," Custer was promoted to major general and the helm of the Third Cavalry Division when he was only twenty-four. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox. Gregory J. W Urwin, an associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, has written a new preface for this Bison Book edition.
Killing Custer
Author: James Welch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007-01-30
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780393329391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic account of Custer\'s Last Stand that shattered themyth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. This historic and personal work tells the Native American sideof Custer\'s fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous theencounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of PlainsIndians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.
Last in Their Class
Author: James Robbins
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2017-03-21
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 1594039240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday’s Goat, the celebrated West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, carries on a long and storied tradition. George Custer’s contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to “blow post” at night to carouse at local taverns also motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same willingness to stoically accept punishment for his hijinks at the Academy also sent George Pickett marching into the teeth of the Union guns at Gettysburg. The story James S. Robbins tells goes from the beginnings of West Point through the carnage of the Civil War to the grassy bluffs over the Little Big Horn. The Goats he profiles tell us much about the soul of the American solider, his daring, imagination and desire to prove himself against high odds.
The Custer Myth
Author: W. A. Graham
Publisher: Stackpole Classics
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Custer story began in controversy and in dispute; because of Custer's death in a blaze of glory that became the setting for propaganda which caught and held, and still holds, the imagination of the American people. What began in controversy and dispute has ended in Myth; a myth built, like other myths, upon actual data and events, magnified, distorted and disproportioned by fiction, invention, imagination and speculation.
Custer Survivor
Author: John P. Koster
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933909035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProof of survivor at Little Big Horn. History Channel shows episode repeatedly.
The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer
Author: Thom Hatch
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1250051029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSubtitle from jacket; subtitle on title page repeats the main title.
My life on the plains or, Personal experiences with Indians
Author: George Armstrong Custer
Publisher:
Published: 1874
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrossing the Plains with Custer
Author: Paul Horsted
Publisher:
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780971805354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Photographer William Illingworth captured images of great quality and clarity, while at least fifteen men were recording vivid accounts in their diaries, reports and newspaper dispatches. These elements are woven together here ... to form a narrative of day-to-day life on the trail. The earlier book told the story of exploring the Black Hills; here the focus is on the plains portion of the journey, much of which can still be followed across a vast and varied landscape. [This book] also adds a new dimension, recognizing that the explorers of 1874 left yet another kind of record in things they lost or discarded along the way -- tools, weapons, cartridges and horseshoes, utensils and buttons, cans and knives. The representative artifacts in these pages further enrich our experience of the Black Hills Expedition"--Dust jacket.
Boots and Saddles
Author: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Published: 1999-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781582181264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoots and Saddles is in reality a bright and sunny sketch of the life of Mrs. Custer's late husband, General George A. Custer, who fell at the battle of Little Big Horn. After the war, General Custer was sent to the Indian frontier. His wife was of the party and she is able to give in minute detail the story of her husband's varied career since she was almost always near the scene of his adventures. She touches on themes little canvassed by the civilian, and makes a volume equally redolent of a loving devotion to an honored husband and attractive as a picture of necessary duty by the soldier. Book jacket.
