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Inventing Custer - The Making of an American Legend (Paperback)
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Inventing Custer - The Making of an American Legend (Paperback)
Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
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Custer's Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in
American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little
Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment,
worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically
inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In
Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward Caudill
and Paul Ashdown bridge the gap between the Custer who lived and
the one we've immortalized and mythologized into legend. While too
many books about Custer treat the Civil War period only as a
prelude to the Little Bighorn, Caudill and Ashdown present him as a
product of the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, and the Plains Indian
Wars. They explain how Custer became mythic, shaped by the press
and changing sentiments toward American Indians, and show the many
ways the myth has evolved and will continue to evolve as the United
States continues to change.
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