Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
"Elliott is an approachable guide as he takes readers to battlefields where Custer fought American Indians... to the Michigan town of Monroe that Custer called home after he moved there at age 10... to the Black Hills of South Dakota where Custer led an expedition that gave birth to a gold rush." - Steve Weinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution "By 'Custerology,' Elliott means the historical interpretation and commemoration of Custer and the Indian Wars in which he fought not only by those who honor Custer but by those who celebrate the Native American resistance that defeated him. The purpose of this book is to show how Custer and the Little Bighorn can be and have been commemorated for such contradictory purposes." - Library Journal "Michael Elliott's Custerology is vivid, trenchant, engrossing, and important. The American soldier George Armstrong Custer has been the subject of very nearly incessant debate for almost a century and a half, and the debate is multicultural, multinational, and multimedia. Mr. Elliott's book provides by far the best overview, and no one interested in the long-haired soldier whom the Indians called Son of the Morning Star can afford to miss it." - Larry McMurtry"