Elizabeth Bacon Custer: And the Making of a Myth - Couverture souple

Leckie, Shirley A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806130962 ISBN 13 : 9780806130965

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

Synopsis

George Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806130962
• ISBN 13: 9780806130965
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 444
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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