Custer: Frederick Whittaker's Complete Life of General George A. Custer

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Major General of Volunteers, Brevet Major General U.S. Army and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry First published in 1876, it was written from the contemporary perspective of Frederick Whittaker, an author who was well-known for his dime novels about swashbuckling adventurers, and who greatly admired Custer. In a new introduction, the editor discusses Custer, both man and myth, as well as his symbolic importance today. He traces the development of the public perception of Custer as a hero and as a villain, and eventually as a Civil War and Western hero, worthy of honor, but with all the faults and frailties of any human being. Don Heinrich Tolzmann (1876), 1993, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 648 pp.ISBN: 9781556138607 101-T3860 Show more