Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

McMurtry, Larry

Custer / Larry McMurtry - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012. - 178 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm

BY LARRY MCMURTY. The Berrybender Narratives --
Hollywood: A Third Memoir --
Literary Life: A Second Memoir --
Rhino Ranch --
Books: A Memoir --
When the Light Goes --
Telegraph Days --
Oh What a Slaughter --
The Colonel and Little Missie --
Loop Group --
Folly and Glory --
By Sorrow's River --
The Wandering Hill --
Sin Killer --
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West --
Paradise --
Boone's Lick --
Roads --
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West, 1950 to the Present --
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen --
Duane's Depressed --
Crazy Horse --
Comanche Moon --
Dead Man's Walk --
The Late Child --
Streets of Laredo --
The Evening Star --
Buffalo Girls --
Some Can Whistle --
Anything for Billy --
Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood --
Texasville --
Lonesome Dove --
The Desert Rose --
Cadillac Jack --
Somebody's Darling --
Terms of Endearment --
All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers --
Moving On --
The Last Picture Show --
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas --
Leaving Cheyenne --
Horseman, Pass By.

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.

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9781451626209 (hardcover) 1451626207 (hardcover) 9781451626209

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Custer, George A. 1839-1876.


United States Army




Generals--United States
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
Indians of North America--Wars--Great Plains.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

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