Post by elisabeth on Mar 9, 2006 1:57:20 GMT -6
... by John Upton Terrell and Colonel George Walton. Published 1966.
This is a biography of Reno. It has an index and a bibliography, but NO footnotes -- which is maddening, as they throw in all sorts of interesting snippets whose veracity one can't judge. Also, there are enough easily detectable errors to make one worry a bit about the rest; and so much author intrusion ("he thought" etc.) that it's better to regard it as a novel, really. But that said, it's deliciously written. Highly entertaining. (Warning to philes: the authors don't like Custer one bit!)
Nice to have as a fun companion volume to "In Custer's Shadow". Nichols for the facts, this book for the laughs.
This is a biography of Reno. It has an index and a bibliography, but NO footnotes -- which is maddening, as they throw in all sorts of interesting snippets whose veracity one can't judge. Also, there are enough easily detectable errors to make one worry a bit about the rest; and so much author intrusion ("he thought" etc.) that it's better to regard it as a novel, really. But that said, it's deliciously written. Highly entertaining. (Warning to philes: the authors don't like Custer one bit!)
Nice to have as a fun companion volume to "In Custer's Shadow". Nichols for the facts, this book for the laughs.