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General George Custer Historical Books Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
General George Custer Historical Books Collection
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Featured in this lot is a collection of seven historical books on General George Armstrong Custer. Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1857, where he graduated last in his class in 1861. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Custer was called to serve with the Union Army. On June 25, 1876 ("Custer's Last Stand"), while leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his detachment—which included two of his brothers—were killed. The books included in this collection are: "Custer and the Little Bighorn" by Jim Donovan (2001) [2 copies], "Custer and the Great Controversy" by Robert Utley (1980), "Custer Lives!" by James Dowd (1982), "Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth" by Shirley Leckie (1993), "Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer" by Jeffry Wert (1996), and "With Custer on the Little Bighorn' by William O. Taylor (1996).