My Life on the Plains: Personal Experiences with Indians - Softcover

Custer Armstrong, George

 
9780760780718: My Life on the Plains: Personal Experiences with Indians

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In 1874, just two years before General George A. Custer's death at Little Big Horn, a collection of his magazine articles was published as "My Life on the Plains." Custer, General in the U.S. Army's Seventh Cavalry, wrote personal accounts of his encounters with Native Americans during the western Indian warfare of 1867-1869. The collection was a d

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Born in Ohio in 1839 and raised in Michigan, George Armstrong Custer secured an appointment in 1857 to West Point. At twenty-three years old, he became the Union Army’s youngest general. Custer’s metamorphosis from slain national hero to self-serving, incompetent, and even genocidal villain―still the symbolic frontier soldier, recast as a handy scapegoat for America’s sins against the Indian―has failed to dim interest in his memoirs.

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ISBN 10:  1610010094 ISBN 13:  9781610010092
Verlag: RED & BLACK PUBL, 2011
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