num_pages: 480
description: Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
language: English
title: Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
titlecomplete: Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
genres: Historical, History, American History, War, Biography, Military History, Westerns, American, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 2979
places: Montana
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: North Point Press