Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn - Hardcover

Connell, Evan S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865471606 ISBN 13: 9780865471603

Publisher: North Point Press, 1984

Synopsis

Portrays the life of General Custer and describes the massacre of him and his forces by the Indians at the Little Bighorn

About this title

Review:

On June 25, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and some 200 cavalrymen under his command blundered into a coulee along the banks of Montana's Little Bighorn River. They never came out; several thousand Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho warriors saw to that. The name and the event of the Little Bighorn have subsequently entered into American mythology, reverberating throughout the nation's history. Custer's famous demise has yielded thousands of books, and Son of the Morning Star is exceptional among them: part anthropological study of Plains Indian life, part military history, and part character study of the principal actors in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Evan Connell's work presents the first truly balanced account of Custer's career.

About the Author:

Evan S. Connell, long recognised as one of the most important American literary voices, is the author of seventeen books, including Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Deus lo Volt: A Chronicle of the Crusades and El Dorado & Other Pursuits (both available in Pimlico). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0865471606
• ISBN 13: 9780865471603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 441