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Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth
Custer's Last Stand The Anatomy of an American Myth Author:Brian W. Dippie 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 uni... more »que reflection on the national character.« less