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Son of the Morning Star (Identified on cover as: Son of the Morning Star; Custer & the Little Bighorn.)
by Connell, Evan S
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0883940884
- ISBN 13
- 9780883940884
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Promontory Press [0-88394-088-4] 1993. (4to) 441pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Map, illustrations, fold-out color illustrations, bibliography, index. The boards are lightly splayed and the spine is gently edgeworn at the top and bottom. "Perhaps no episode in American history has done so much to forge our attitudes and national character as the usupration of Indian lands in the inexorable passage of westward settlement". Book about Custer's Last Stand, George Armstrong Custer, George Armstrong Custer & Little Bighorn. Identified on cover as: Son of the Morning Star; Custer and the Little Bighorn. Locale: Little Bighorn. (Western America, Frontier Life, History--United States, Indian Wars, Indians of N.A., Indigenous Peoples--United States, Settlement--United States, Western America).
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154272
- Title
- Son of the Morning Star (Identified on cover as: Son of the Morning Star; Custer & the Little Bighorn.)
- Author
- Connell, Evan S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0883940884
- ISBN 13
- 9780883940884
- Publisher
- Promontory Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- September 1998
- Keywords
- Western America, Frontier Life, History--United States, Indian Wars, Indians of N.A., Indigenous Peoples--United States, Settlement--United States, Western America
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN HISTORY;
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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