Isbn: 9780806121505 - cavalier in buckskin: george armstrong custer and the western military frontier (oklahoma western biographies) (23 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Describing the military and political milieu in which Custer operated, this biography probes the man behind the legend while characterizing and interpreting the institutional context of both. The author has written widely on the American West and was Chief Historian of the National Park Service.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st ed. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Ex owners name on preim pages. Reading pages are clean/intact. Cover edges have light shelf wear.

1988. North America, Military History. University of Oklahoma Press. Oklahoma Biographies, 226 p., very good boards and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Very Good. Book Club Edition. Pencil erasure on rear end paper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine. BCE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. 1st. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Fine. Book Club Edition.

Zustand: fair, fair. Book Club Edition. 226, maps, index, substantial pencil underlining and notations, picture of Custer taped to front endpaper, DJ worn and soiled Volume I in Oklahoma Western Biographies. No figure in the history of the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination than George Armstrong Custer. The Custer wielding this enormous influence, however, isthe legendary Custer, not the real Custer, the immortal rather than the mortal. Cavalier in Buckskin probes the mortal and the immortal while alsocharacterizing and interpreting the institutional context of both the frontier army and the American West.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. first edition book, includes the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 226pp. Illustrations from black and white photographs. Stain on rear board else fine in a near fine dust jacket with internal foxing and a small stain on the rear panel. Volume 1 in *The Oklahoma Western Biographies* series.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. Stated first edition. Octavo. 226p. Illustrated. Topedge lightly foxed, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of edgewear and light foxing, mostly on the verso. Part of the Oklahoma Western Biographies, edited by Richard W. Etulain.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xvii, [1], 226, [4] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Includes Series Editor's Preface, Sources, and Index. Chapters cover Immortality; Boy General; Regular Army; Total War; Iron Horse; Gold; Politics; Last Stand; And Judgments. Also includes 46 black and white illustrations following page 78, as well as 8 black and white maps of Hancock's War; The Southern Plains War; The Battle of the Washita; The Yellowstone and Black Hills Expeditions, 1873-1874; Fort Abraham Lincoln D. T.; The Sioux War of 1876; The Little Bighorn Campaign, June 1876; and The Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. This is Volume 1 in the Oklahoma Western Biographies series. Robert Marshall Utley (born October 31, 1929) is an American author and historian who has written sixteen books on the history of the American West. He is a former chief historian for the National Park Service. Much of his writing deals with the United States Army in the West, especially in its confrontations with the Indian tribes. He writes: the frontier army was a conventional military force trying to control, by conventional military methods, a people that did not behave like conventional enemies and, indeed, quite often were not enemies at all. This is the most difficult of all military assignments, whether in Africa, Asia, or the American West. The Western History Association annually gives out the Robert M. Utley Book Award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America. The author probes the mortal and the immortal while also characterizing and interpreting the institutional context of both--the frontier army of the American West. Custer was the best known (though not the best) of the nation's military Indian fighters. Through the man, we have clear access to the western military frontier and the nature of warfare with the Indians of the Great Plains. Custer first burst into popular imagination as the "Boy General" of Civil War fame. Despite his youth, he proved a superlative combat leader; from Gettysburg to Appomattox his handling of cavalry brigade and division was nearly flawless. Custer was a complex character, overflowing with contradictions. Robert Utley sees the contradictions as symptoms of a constant struggle between boy and man, a struggle never wholly resolved. Spotlighted here for the first time are an obsession with money that fueled shady business deals and possibly fraudulent kickback schemes and a solid marriage, that nonetheless, after some stormy interludes, accommodated infidelities. Derived from a Kirkus review: Aground-breaking biography of Custer, by a former Chief Historian of the National Park Service and author of many books and articles on the West. Utley performs a stupendous job of research here. The bibliography of Custer is one of the most extensive in American history, yet the author manages to highlight some unnoticed (or little-noticed) factors in Custer's life. For example, here Custer is reported to have had an unhealthy obsession with money that led him into some shady business deals and fraudulent kickback schemes. Similarly, Utley manages to unearth marital infidelities overlooked by previous authors. But, as usual, it is on the Battle of the Little Big Horn that Custer's reputation stands or falls. Utley is supportive of Custer's military skills, even in defeat. He finds much of the later criticisms of Custer's strategy to be based on Monday-morning quarter backing, criticizing Custer for over looking facts he could not possibly have known at the time. Sure to stir controversy amid historians, but Utley is to be commended for taking an unpopular opinion and standing firm. A fine, well-balanced biography of a complex character. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…

[0-8061-2150-5] 1988. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. xvii, 226pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt to spine. Jacket shows only the faintest of wear at the top edge and there is a single light (small and almost imperceptible) mark to the front panel. Fine copy in near fine to fine jacket. The Oklahoma Western Biographies series.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. very good +. First Edition. 8vo ( 22 x 14 cm). 226 pp. Blue cloth covers with silver gilt titles to spine. Signed by author on verso of front free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ in Mylar.