Custer and the Great Controversy; The Origin and Development of a Legend
by Utley, Robert M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press 1962. (Hardcover) 184pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on the spine and embossed design on cover. Illustrated map endpapers, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. The top edge of the front free endpaper has been clipped. "Few events in American history have caught the public fancy so forcibly as did the Custer disaster; few have inspired such intensity of interest and argument; and few have been more clouded by the producers of legend and fiction. The result is a historical debate beside which all others pale". Book about George Armstrong Custer. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: Little Big Horn; United States. (Miltary, Battles, Indians of North America).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152335
- Title
- Custer and the Great Controversy; The Origin and Development of a Legend
- Author
- Utley, Robert M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Westernlore Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Keywords
- Miltary, Battles, Indians of North America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...