Custer's Last Stand

The Anatomy of an American Myth

• Author(s): Brian W. Dippie,
• Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
• Pages: 214
• ISBN_13: 9780803265929
  ISBN_10: 0803265921
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / General , History / United States / 19th Century ,

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.