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Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book My life on the plains or, Personal experiences with Indians written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. A. Custer U.S.A. /George Armstrong Custer /
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981599547
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (995 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains Or, Personal Experiences with Indians. by written by G. A. Custer U.S.A. /George Armstrong Custer / and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GEORGE ARMSTRONG OUSTER was born in New Rumley, Ohio, December 5, 1839. New Rumley is a group of houses, an old established settlement, in Harrison County, on the border of Pennsylvania, and peopled from thence early in the last century. It is a small place, not set down on any but very large scale maps, and most of the population of the township is scattered in farm houses about the country. The family history, gleaned from the family Bible, is plain and simple. It is that of an honest group of hard workers, not ashamed of work, and it shows that the stock of which the future general came was good, such as made frontiersmen and pioneers in the last century. Emmanuel H. Custer, father of the general, was born in Cryssoptown, Alleghany County, Maryland, December 10th, 1806. To-day, a hale hearty old man of seventy, somewhat bowed, but well as ever to all seeming, he stands a living instance of the strong physique and keen wits of the determined men wlib made the wild forests of Ohio to bloom like the rose. He was brought up as a smith, and worked at his trade for many years, till he had saved enough money to buy a farm, when he became a cultivator. All he knows he taught himself, but he gave his children the best education that could be obtained in those early days in Ohio. "When quite a young man, he left
Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Life On the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences With Indians. by Gen. G. A. Custer, U. S. A. written by George Armstrong Custer and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1874 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George A. Custer
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ISBN 13 : 9780578166742
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (667 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by George A. Custer and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life on the Plains is the first book in the History in Words and Pictures Series, a collection of books that bring you back in time, in the words of those who were there, with visions of the world as they saw it. The History in Words and Pictures Series is a thoughtfully selected collection of historical works, edited to a modern reading experience and supplemented with archived and contemporary photography. Written by the General George Armstrong Custer, My Life on the Plains begins in the years following the Civil War when General Custer was assigned with the task of quelling Indian unrest in Kansas. The Indians had brought traffic to a standstill along the Overland Trail and the army seemed helpless to stop it. Custer embraces the challenge, yet boldly calls out the corruption in the Indian Department and the inept government policies that helped create the mess he is now charged with fixing. Custer's practice of "telling it like he sees it" creates a political conflict that follows him and perhaps contributes to his demise at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This fascinating story allows us to experience history in the words and visions of those who made it rather than time and era biased interpretations. Other books in the History in Words and Pictures series include Following the Guidon by Custer's wife, Elizabeth.
Author : George Armstrong Custer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486844323
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by George Armstrong Custer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of Custer's reminiscences concerning his participation in the U.S. Army's 1867–69 campaigns against the Plains Indians. Fascinating document of military history, offering insights into the notorious general's perspectives and character.
Author : George Armstrong Custer
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ISBN 13 : 9781418121518
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (215 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences with Indians. by Gen. G. A. Custer, U. S. A. written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Armstrong Custer
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ISBN 13 : 9781646790197
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Armstrong Custer
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ISBN 13 : 9781846779619
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (796 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains Or Personal Experiences with Indians written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of the most famous American cavalryman Those who pursue fame are occasionally fated to acquire it for reasons other than those of their ambitions. So it is with George Armstrong Custer who is principally renowned for being swiftly eradicated with most of his command on the final day of his career in the 'last stand' on the Little Big Horn. That end has been made the more ignominious since there is an abiding view that he was responsible for it. There was, inevitably, much more to the man than this and whilst his passions for fame, status and glory are acknowledged, the fact remains that Custer was a dashing, brave, dynamic officer whose deeds-particularly during the Civil War-had raised him to high rank with meteoric speed. He was an exceptional soldier and personality in a time and place where the unexceptional was the norm. This book, Custer's own account of his Indian Wars is, like any other memoir, not devoid of the bias, ego and hubris of the author. Nevertheless, it is singular for there was only one George Armstrong Custer and he has joined the legendary ranks of the outstanding characters of the American West. This is a fascinating insight into the mind and experiences of 'the man' and is essential reading for every enthusiast of the history of the period.
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ISBN 13 : 9780371325339
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (253 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129320
Total Pages : 1227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Custer written by Jeffry D. Wert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost. Now, in the first complete biography in decades, Jeffry Wert reexamines the life of the famous soldier to give us Custer in all his colorful complexity. Although remembered today as the loser at Little Big Horn, Custer was the victor of many cavalry engagements in the Civil War. He played an important role in several battles in the Virginia theater of the war, including the Shenandoah campaign. Renowned for his fearlessness in battle, he was always in front of his troops, leading the charge. His men were fiercely loyal to him, and he was highly regarded by Sheridan and Grant as well. Some historians think he may have been the finest cavalry officer in the Union Army. But when he was assigned to the Indian wars on the Plains, life changed drastically for Custer. No longer was he in command of soldiers bound together by a cause they believed in. Discipline problems were rampant, and Custer's response to them earned him a court-martial. There were long lulls in the fighting, during which time Custer turned his attention elsewhere, often to his wife, Libbie Bacon Custer, to whom he was devoted. Their romance and marriage is a remarkable love story, told here in part through their personal correspondence. After Custer's death, Libbie would remain faithful to his memory until her own death nearly six decades later. Jeffry Wert carefully examines the events around the defeat at Little Big Horn, drawing on recent archeological findings and the latest scholarship. His evenhanded account of the dramatic battle puts Custer's performance, and that of his subordinates, in proper perspective. From beginning to end, this masterful biography peels off the layers of legend to reveal for us the real George Armstrong Custer.
Author : Michael A. Elliott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226201481
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Custerology written by Michael A. Elliott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer’s direct command was killed. It’s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with Custerology, Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little Bighorn with contemporary commemorations that range from battle reenactments to the unfinished Crazy Horse memorial, Elliott reveals a Custer and a West whose legacies are still vigorously contested. He takes readers to each of the important places of Custer’s life, from his Civil War home in Michigan to the site of his famous demise, and introduces us to Native American activists, Park Service rangers, and devoted history buffs along the way. Elliott shows how Custer and the Indian Wars continue to be both a powerful symbol of America’s bloody past and a crucial key to understanding the nation’s multicultural present. “[Elliott] is an approachable guide as he takes readers to battlefields where Custer fought American Indians . . . to the Michigan town of Monroe that Custer called home after he moved there at age 10 . . . to the Black Hills of South Dakota where Custer led an expedition that gave birth to a gold rush."—Steve Weinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution “By ‘Custerology,’ Elliott means the historical interpretation and commemoration of Custer and the Indian Wars in which he fought not only by those who honor Custer but by those who celebrate the Native American resistance that defeated him. The purpose of this book is to show how Custer and the Little Bighorn can be and have been commemorated for such contradictory purposes.”—Library Journal “Michael Elliott’s Custerology is vivid, trenchant, engrossing, and important. The American soldier George Armstrong Custer has been the subject of very nearly incessant debate for almost a century and a half, and the debate is multicultural, multinational, and multimedia. Mr. Elliott's book provides by far the best overview, and no one interested in the long-haired soldier whom the Indians called Son of the Morning Star can afford to miss it.”—Larry McMurtry
Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875844
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Custer's Trials written by T.J. Stiles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person—capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.
Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250028507
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Glorious War written by Thom Hatch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of General Custer doesn't focus on his failure at Little Big Horn but instead describes his legendary successes during the Civil War including his capture of the first Confederate battle flag of the war. 30,000 first printing.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497659256
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Crazy Horse and Custer written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages. Both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.
Author : Jay Monaghan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803257320
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Custer written by Jay Monaghan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Custer literature is voluminous and most of it is highly controversial. Through the tangle of charges and countercharges Jay Monaghan cuts a clear path in his fresh account of Custer's whole career. Where possible, Monaghan relies on original sources, and he appraises them with the sound judgment of the practiced historian he is. He is sympathetic with Custer but does not hesitate to show the man's foibles and failures. He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. . . ."
Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609440497
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 1912-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1867 General Custer—at the midpoint of his carreer—was a leader in the US Army’s campaign against the Cheyenne people. His military service until this point had seen the curtains of history rise and fall; he had fought at Gettysburg, and witnessed the end of the Civil War. He was then employed by the Army to enforce the government’s tragic policies regarding its native populations. His account details those events, as well as his admiration for the Midwestern landscape, his mixed feelings about soldiering, and his sympathies towards the people he was employed to fight. It reveals him to be neither hero nor villain, but a complex figure. Written with surprising lucidity, Custer’s story remains an important but troubling part of the development of the American West.
