Custer's Last Stand
The Anatomy of an American Myth
Published on 1. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-0-8032-6592-9 (ISBN)
Description
Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Nebraska
United States
Publishing group
University of Nebraska Press
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illus
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-6592-9 (9780803265929)
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Person
Brian W. Dippie, a professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, is a well-known authority on Custer and the author of Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage (Nebraska).