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Crazy Horse and Custer

By: Anchor Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Anchor Books)

Last Stocked on 8/19/2024

Product Info

Title
Crazy Horse and Custer
Publisher
Category
Author
Stephen E. Ambrose
Publish Year
2003
Pages
527
Dimensions
5.25x8x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148161030
Type
Softcover

Description

On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great war leaders would soon become forever linked: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. This masterly dual biography tells the epic story of the lives of these two men: both were fighters of legendary daring, both became honored leaders in their societies when still astonishingly young, and both died when close to the supreme political heights. Yet they - like the nations they represented - were as different as day and night. Custer had won his spurs in the American Civil War; his watchword was 'To promotion - or death!' and his restless ambition characterized a white nation in search of expansion and progress. Crazy Horse fought for a nomadic way of life fast yielding before the buffalo-hunters and the incursions of the white man. The Great Plains of North America provided the stage - and the prize.