Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth

By Brian W. Dippie

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803265921
• ISBN13: 9780803265929
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"