The Custer Reader

by Hutton, Paul Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780806134659
• ISBN10: 0806134658
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

George Armstrong Custer, America's most famously unfortunate soldier, has been the subject of scores of books, but The Custer Readeris unique as a substantial source of classic writings about and by him. Here is Custer as seen by himself, his contemporaries, and leading scholars. Even those steeped in Custeriana will discover new insights in these pieces. Combining first-person narratives, essays, and photographs, this book provides a complete introduction to Custer's controversial personality and career and the evolution of the Custer myth.

Table of Contents

List of Maps,	xi
Foreword to the Oklahoma Edition,	xi
Preface,	xiii
THE CIVIL WAR
Introduction,	3	(4)
Custer: The Civil War Years,	7	(26)
Gregory J.W. Urwin
From West Point to the Battlefield,	33	(20)
G.A. Custer
Custer's "Last Stand"-Trevilian Station, 1864,	53	(16)
Jay Monaghan
The Battle of Waynesboro,	69	(14)
Harlan Page Lloyd
Photographic Essay,	83	(10)
THE INDIAN WARS
Introduction,	93	(10)
Custer: The Indian Fighter,	103	(13)
Brian W. Dippie
The West Breaks in General Custer,	116	(43)
Minnie Dubbs Millbrook
Some Reminiscences, Including the Washita Battle, November 27, 1868,	159	(21)
Edward S. Godfrey
Expedition to the Yellowstone River in 1873: Letters of a Young Cavalry Officer,	180	(21)
Charles W. Lamed, edited by George Frederick Howe
Battling with the Sioux on the Yellowstone,	201	(20)
G.A. Custer
Photographic Essay,	221	(8)
THE LITTLE BIG HORN
Introduction,	229	(10)
The Little Big Horn,	239	(18)
Robert M. Utley
Custer's Last Battle,	257	(62)
Edward S. Godfrey
The Cavalry Campaign Outfit at the Little Big Horn,	319	(17)
James S. Hutchins
The Battle of the Little Bighorn,	336	(9)
Chief Joseph White Bull, as told to Stanley Vestal
Custer's Last Battle,	345	(18)
Charles King
She Watched Custer's Last Battle,	363	(16)
Kate Bighead, as told to Thomas B. Marquis
Photographic Essay,	379	(8)
THE CUSTER MYTH
Introduction,	387	(8)
From Little Big Horn to Little Big Man: The Changing Image of a Western Hero in Popular Culture,	395	(29)
Paul Andrew Hutton
The Pictorial Record of the Old West: Custer's Last Stand-John Mulvany, Cassilly Adams, and Otto Becker,	424	(39)
Robert Taft
Sunday at the Little Big Horn with George,	463	(10)
Eric von Schmidt
Jack Crabb and the Sole Survivors of Custer's Last Stand,	473	(15)
Brian W. Dippie
"Correct in Every Detail": General Custer in Hollywood,	488	(37)
Paul Andrew Hutton
Custer: The Legend of the Martyred Hero in America,	525	(24)
Bruce A. Rosenberg
Photographic Essay,	549	(12)
Bibliographical Essay,	561	(14)
Sources,	575	(2)
Index,	577