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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. In the end, his death would launch one of the greatest myths in American history. Part of the Wild West collection.
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124 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 20 cm.
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English
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Presents the life of the famous Sioux chief Sitting Bull, from his youth and participation in the Battle of the Little Bighorn to his involvement in many of the Native American conflicts of his time.
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 254
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xviii, 510 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm.
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English
13) Sitting Bull
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47 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Introduces the life of Lakota Sioux warrior and holy man Sitting Bull, who led his people to victory at Little Bighorn and brought them to safety in Canada before surrendering so that they would not starve.
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"As a favor to the beautiful actress Mary Deschenes, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer hires her eighteen-year-old son Allen Winslow as an aide for his 1876 campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne. Traveling west against his will, Allen finds himself in the company of Addie Grace Lord, sixteen, sister of one of Custer's regimental surgeons. The two fall in love, and it is with foreboding that Addie Grace watches Allen and her brother George ride...
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On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke. After dividing his famed 7th Cavalry, he ordered his senior officer, Major Marcus A. Reno, to strike the southern end of the vast Indian encampment along the Little Bighorn River, while Custer would launch a bold flank attack to hit the village's northern end. Custer needed to charge across the river at Medicine Tail Coulee Ford. We all...
16) Sky Hawk
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283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
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"Two defeated samurai are exiled from Japan during the Boshin War of 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold. Ending up in Crow Territory in North America, they encounter Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglalas, and soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures. This respect was felt so deeply that the two Japanese travelers end up fighting alongside the Oglalas at the infamous encounter at Little Bighorn."--Provided by publisher....
18) Custer
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178 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm
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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...
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Andrew Huebner makes his debut with a novel that Booklist praises as "simply told and simply devastating." In American by Blood, Huebner gives a fictional account of three scouts after they discover the results of Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn. Ordered to follow the trail of the retreating Sioux Indians, they lead their fellow cavalrymen into bloody battles in which no life is spared. But the horror and the bloodshed the three witness are...
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xxi, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person -- capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic...
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