Custer and The Great Controversy: Origin and Development of a Legend
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Language: English
Published by Westernlore Press, Pasadena, California, 1980
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LUTHER HIGH SPOT in dark blue decorated boards, illustrated dust jacket, endpaper maps, 8 illlus. and 1 map (listed), biblio., index, 184pp. Luther #193. Dowd # 3035. O'Keefe #2420. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket with mylar. Just the book for those who enjoy the study of Custer literature, with a 20-page bibliographical survey of the early (1876-1900) works on Custer's Last Stand. The "great controversy," essentially started by Frederick Whittaker with his book "A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer" (#2540), was over the degree to which Custer and Major Reno and their actions were to blame for the 7th's defeat. The great debate centered around whether or not Custer disobeyed Gen. Terry's orders. Utley explores the literary responses to the battle as well as the origin, growth and evolution of the Custer legend. A classic and excellent.
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- Title
- Custer and The Great Controversy: Origin and Development of a Legend
- Author
- Utley, Robert M.
- Publisher
- Westernlore Press, Pasadena, California
- Publication year
- 1980
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0870260537
- ISBN 13
- 9780870260537
- Edition
- First edition.
- Printing
- 2nd printing
FORMER LIBRARY BOOK WITH USUAL STAMPS AND MARKINGS. SCUFFING, SOME FADING AND EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. INSIDE COVERS AND PAGES HAVE AGE TANNING & SOME DISCOLORATION, NOT AFFECTING READABILITY OF BOOK. PLEASE SEE OUR SCAN.
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Custer and the Great Controversy was the first book to focus on the origins of what has come to be called the Custer myth. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has always been wrapped in mystery and controversy because none of Custer's men survived to tell what happened, because press accounts circulated much misinformation and editors politicized the event, because popular writers repeated the errors of journalists, because a court of inquiry resulted in bitter debate, and because Indian testimony was hard to gauge. This book, originally published in 1962, helps the reader understand the sources of the confusion and controversy surrounding the Custer fight and the beginning of the legend.
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