Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth

by Brian W. Dippie

Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand , Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.

Genres: History, Indigenous, Westerns, Nonfiction

226 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977