Glory Hunter: A Life of General Custer - Hardcover
"All his life, he rode after Glory," writers Frederic F. Van de Water of George Armstrong Custer. Ironically, he found it at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In his introduction to this edition, Paul Andrew Hutton considers the importance of Glory-Hunter, which appeared in 1934 as the first biography to depict Custer in unheroic terms.
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About the Author:
Paul Andrew Hutton, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is the author of the prize-winning Phil Sheridan and His Army (UNP, 1985).
Review:
"Frederic F. Van de Water has written the Custer book to end all Custer books. . . . [It is] based upon profound research . . . [and a] thorough understanding of the motivations which shaped Custer's meteoric career."—Books (Books)
"Mr. Van de Water has accumulated evidence until it can hardly be questioned. There is enough of it to damn the man as hard cruel, and irresponsible. . . . At any rate, the story has an epic movement, and at last is heart-stirring and somberly beautiful."—New York Times (New York Times)
"Mr. Van de Water has accumulated evidence until it can hardly be questioned. There is enough of it to damn the man as hard cruel, and irresponsible. . . . At any rate, the story has an epic movement, and at last is heart-stirring and somberly beautiful."—New York Times (New York Times)
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- PublisherArgosy Antiquarian Ltd
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 0872660346
- ISBN 13 9780872660342
- BindingHardcover
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