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Custer
by McMurtry, Larry
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1451626207
- ISBN 13
- 9781451626209
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This is a new larger hardcover with dust jacket. 2012 Simon & Schuster Publishing. Crisp and clean inside and out. Dust jacket new.
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the great chronicler of the American West tackles one of the paramount figures of Western and American history. On June 25th, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana territory. He lost not only the battle - but his life- and the lives of his entire cavalry. "Custer's Last Stand" was a stunning defeat that shocked the country. This is history with larger-than-life characters and myth dispelling facts that is a must read for any American history fan.
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the great chronicler of the American West tackles one of the paramount figures of Western and American history. On June 25th, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana territory. He lost not only the battle - but his life- and the lives of his entire cavalry. "Custer's Last Stand" was a stunning defeat that shocked the country. This is history with larger-than-life characters and myth dispelling facts that is a must read for any American history fan.
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Synopsis
This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the WestâÈçs most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from âÈêone of AmericaâÈçs great storytellersâÈë ( The Wall Street Journal ). On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his seventh cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. He lost not only the battle but his life and the lives of his entire cavalry. âÈêCusterâÈçs Last StandâÈë was a spectacular defeat that shocked the country and grew into a legend that has reverberated in the national consciousness to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry has long been fascinated by the âÈêBoy GeneralâÈë and his rightful place in history. Here he delivers an expansive, clear-eyed reassessment of his life and legacy, revealing a complex, perpetually restless man with a difficult marriage, a hunger for glory, and an unwavering confidence in his abilities. While Custer is first and foremost an enthralling story filled with larger-than-life charactersâÈ'Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, Crazy HorseâÈ'McMurtry also argues that Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in American history, bringing to a close the great narrative of western expansion. Featuring more than 100 photographs, paintings, and illustrations, Custer is a visually stunning and magisterial portrait of one of the paramount figures of Western and American history, as told by the greatest chronicler of the American West.
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- Bookseller
- Bobbis Bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RH-XP5O-GS1L
- Title
- Custer
- Author
- McMurtry, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1451626207
- ISBN 13
- 9781451626209
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 172
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- Larry McMurtry, Custer, history, American history, American West books, American West history, Little Big Horn,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History American; History American West;
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