The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana - Hardcover

W. A. Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1122219245 ISBN 13: 9781122219242

Publisher: The Stackpole Company, 1953

Synopsis

Recognizing the imperative need for a documented source book that would impartially present original source material, unbiased by interpretations and misconstructions, the author has herein assembled a fascinating and absorbing feast for students of Custer's last battle, much of it never before published.

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About the Author

William A. Graham, 1875-1954, studied at Beloit College in Wisconsin, Stanford University, and the University of Iowa, from which he received a law degree in 1897. Graham practiced law until 1912, when he joined the Iowa National Guard. Although he saw active duty, he spent most of his Army career as a judge advocate. In 1919 he began to study the battle of the Little Big Horn, and first published The Story of the Little Big Horn in 1925. He later published The Reno Court of Inquiry: Abstract of the Official Record of Proceedings and The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana.

Brian C. Pohanka, one of the nation’s leading authorities on the life of the common soldier of the Civil War, is a frequent consultant of film and the television producers on Civil War reenacting and living history. Formerly an assistant editor and researcher for the Time-Life Books Civil War series, he is the author of Distant Thunder: A Photographic Essay on the American Civil War and Civil War: An Aerial Portrait. Pohanka is also active in Custer and Little Bighorn studies, including archaeological work on the Little Bighorn Battlefield. He works as a freelance writer and consultant from his home in Alexandria, Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Stackpole Company
• Publication date: 1953
• ISBN 10: 1122219245
• ISBN 13: 9781122219242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 413