Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth
By (author): "Brian W. Dippie"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1977
ISBN0803265921
ISBN139780803265929
AsinCuster's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth
Original titleCuster's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth
Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.