Custerology

Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Elliott is associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism and coeditor of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. Klappentext On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. In this in-depth study, the author tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle of Little Bighorn retains such power for Americans today. Zusammenfassung On a hot summer day in 1876! George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the famous defeat in US military history. Outnumbered and exhausted! the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its four hundred men! and every soldier under Custer's direct command was killed. This title takes readers to each of the important places of Custer's life.

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On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. In this in-depth study, the author tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle of Little Bighorn retains such power for Americans today.