Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth

Leckie, Shirley A.

ISBN 10: 0806125012 / ISBN 13: 9780806125015

Published by Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1993

About this Item

Bottom corners at fore-edge slightly bumped, the dust jacket spine lettering is faded completely out, not a bit of it left. ; Illus. , maps, inscribed and signed by the author, jacket now in a clear protector. ; 419 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 42892

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
• Publisher: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806125012
• ISBN 13: 9780806125015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • CUSTER AND THE INDIAN WARS

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Synopsis

Georger Armstrong Custer’s death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.

 

About the Author

Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian.