Frederick Whittaker's Life of Custer

[elisabeth]

From those wonderful folks at the University of Wisconsin again:

digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=header&id=History.Whittaker&isize=M

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elisabeth


I managed to get a first edition of this book a few years back. It's a dreadful read, so Victorian purple prose. But it's the source for a ot of the myths.

alfuso

[elisabeth]

Exactly. It's dire, but it's fascinating -- not least in its impassioned denunciation of Reno. (Libbie's opening salvo in her war against Custer's detractors.)

He's an awful hack, and his style is cringe-making. But as you say, it's the starting-point for many myths; useful to have, I think.