Name/Title
Custer Myth: A Source Book of CusterianaEntry/Object ID
2009.3.39Description
'Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana. The author attempts to settle the controversy of the events and actions surrounding Custer and the battle of Little Big Horn by creating a source book of impartially presented original source material. Divided in 4 parts, he includes photographs of the people involved, and maps. Part 1 is composed of Indian accounts of the battle. Parts Ii and II are true copies of Bentee's account of the battle and letter to his wife in his own handwriting written a week after the battle. Part IV includes a series of article by Fred Dustin and a bibilography.
The Custer story began in controversy and in dispute; because of Custer's death in a blaze of glory that became the setting for propaganda which caught and held, and still holds, the imagination of the American people. What began in controversy and dispute has ended in Myth; a myth built, like other myths, upon actual data and events, magnified, distorted and disproportioned by fiction, invention, imagination and speculation.
413/Hardbound/Jacketed/Maps/Photographs/Bibliography.Collection
Don and Maudie Reynolds CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Western Migration, Native American, Sioux, Custer, George, Military, U.S. Army, U.S. Calvary, Sitting Bull, Little Big HornBook Details
Author
Graham, W.A., ColonelPlace Published
City
New York CityState/Province
New YorkDate Published
1953Call No.
Western GRNotes
Copy No.: 1Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
George Custer