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English
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A biography of the Indian fighter who became the youngest General in the Army and won fame for his fatal stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Biography of the Indian fighter who became the youngest General in the Army and made a fatal stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the fateful encounter at the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876, between the Seventh Cavalry troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Custer and the Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux led by Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
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Series
Publisher
Bonanza Books
Pub. Date
c1952
Language
English
Description
No one survived in Custer's immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in Troopers with Custer. Some of the veterans who corresponded with E. A. Brininstool were still alive when his book first appeared in a shortened version in 1925. It has long been recognized as classic Custeriana....
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
Pub. Date
2000c
Language
English
Description
The image of the famous "last stand" of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer has metamorphosed into myth. We picture the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him. this book analyzes and interprets the widely accepted facts underlying the accepted portrayal of Custer's defeat. His perspective, however, is fresh, and he offers wholly new conclusions about...
11) Little Bighorn
Author
Publisher
21st Century Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
63p.
12) The Custer Story: the life and intimate letters of General George A. Custer and his wife Elizabeth
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1987], c1950
Language
English
13) George Custer
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The life of the Civil War general whose controversial fame rests chiefly on the disaster at the Little Big Horn in 1876.