Custer

This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the Wests most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Lonesome Dove and one of Americas great storytellers (The Wall Street Journal), Larry McMurtry.On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. He lost not only the battle but his lifeand the lives of his entire cavalry. Custers Last Stand was a spectacular defeat that shocked the country and grew quickly into a legend that has reverberated in our national consciousness to this day. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time the Boy General and his rightful place in history. Custer is an expansive, agile, and clear-eyed reassessment of the iconic generals life and legacyhow the legend was born, the ways in which it evolved, what it has meanttold against the broad sweep of the American narrative. It is a magisterial portrait of a complicated, misunderstood man that not only irrevocably changes our long-standing conversation about Custer, but once again redefines our understanding of the American West.