Title: Custer
Description: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic defeat clearly signaled the end of the Indian Wars--and brought to a close the great narrative of western expansion.
Subjects: United States, Generals, Indians of North America, Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, United States. Army, Wars, Biography, History, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2012-11-25, New York Times bestseller
Places: United States, Great Plains
People: George A. Custer (1839-1876)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865