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My Life on the Plains: Personal Experiences with Indians - Couverture souple

Custer Armstrong, George

 
9780760780718: My Life on the Plains: Personal Experiences with Indians
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0760780714 ISBN 13 : 9780760780718
Editeur : BookAnnex, 2006

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
BookAnnex
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0760780714
ISBN 13 
9780760780718
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
512
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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