Custer’s Last Stand~The Anatomy of an American Myth~Dippie

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From the Western and Civil War research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

Custer’s Last Stand ~ The Anatomy of an American Myth 

by Brian W. Dippie

Condition; good, minor shelf wear on soft cover

University of Montana, Missoula, 1976

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.