Product Description

Immediately after news of the disaster at Little Bighorn spread across the nation in June of 1876, editors, artists, and writers made George A Custer into the battle's tragic hero. The laudatory biographies that followed and his widow's desperate attempts to preserve her late husband's heroic memory soon elevated his reputation to mythic proportions. But historian and lawyer W. A. Graham (1875-1954) was not interested in the propaganda surrounding the Custer myth. In 1953 Stackpole first published Graham's "The Custer Myth", a much-needed reference work that presents original source material without the bias of interpretations and misconstructions. This classic study will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for every Custer researcher, student, and enthusiast.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1376050 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Customer Reviews

Invaluable resource for the Little Bighorn enthusiast
Perhaps this collection suffers a bit from attempting to be all inclusive, but one can forgive the editor for this failing. Col. W.A.Graham, one of the foremost Custer scholars of his generation, was a retired Army lawyer who believed his mission was to present all the available evidence concerning the subject without slanting the presentation to a particular point of view. I'm happy to see Stackpole Books reissue this gem as part of its Custer Library, This book collects, in one volume, some of the most important and interesting contemporary accounts of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, some of which are next to impossible to find anywhere else. Graham includes excerpts from Sioux, Cheyenne, Arikara and Crow Indian accounts of the battle, statements of participants in the battle, excerpts from the letters of Captain Fred Benteen to his wife and to Theodore Goldin, and Lieutenant (later General) Edward Godfrey's classic article on the battle. This is one of the few books every person interested in Custer and the Little Big Horn Battle must have close at hand.