Name/Title
Custer's LuckEntry/Object ID
2017.1167.4.18Description
A hard cover book with dust cover and plasticized protector entitled Custer's Luck by Edgar I. Stewart. Cover has a colored drawing of a Native American warrior on horseback holding a rifle up in the air above his head. Other warriors are in the background. Desert vegetation is in foreground and in background. Title is in yellow print. Book measures 6.25" x 9.5." Book details the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest until the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. The author attempts to record the comprehensive history surrounding this history: Grant-Custer feud, Belknap scandal, battle strategy of the Indians, Sitting Bull, etc. Book contains maps, photos and illustrations. There is a chapter on the Plains Tribes and Colonel Carrington. Pages 1-521. Book has many footnotes and sources.
Physical Description: Cover has a colored drawing of a Native American warrior on horseback holding a rifle up in the air above his head. Other warriors are in the background. Desert vegetation is in foreground and in background. Title is in yellow print. Book measures 6.25" x 9.5." Pages 1-521.Collection
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