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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Evan S. Connell


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In Son of the Morning Star, Mr. Connell explores deeply the personalities of Custer and the other federal and Indian leaders. Custer, seen by some as a hero, by others as the cause of the defeat, was an enigmatic and extravagant figure, fearless in battle and sentimental in repose. It is said that on first seeing through field glasses the more than four miles of Allied Indian camps, he exclaimed, "hurrah, boys, we've got them!" Disregarding a Cheyenne warning, Custer rode to his death--and led to death every man of the Seventh Cavalry who followed him. A foolish miscalculation ended the life of the man the Indians called "Son of the Morning Star." The story is told that after the battle a squaw drove a sewing awl through his ear and into his skull so that he might hear better in the next world.

From the publisher

Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

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  • Title Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
  • Author Evan S. Connell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher North Point Press, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-10-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780865475106 / 0865475105
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 1170
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84006068
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Evan S. Connell (1924-2013) received numerous prizes and awards for his writing and was the author of many books of fiction, poetry, essays, and history, including Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge, The Diary of a Rapist, The Alchymist's Journal, and The Collected Stories.
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