Son of the morning star / Evan S. Connell.
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TextPublication details: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1997, c1984.Edition: 1st North Point pbk. edDescription: 441 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0865475105
- 9780865475106
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 973.82 C752 | Available | 33111006547653 |
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Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell.
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-437) and index.
Discusses the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the federal and Indian antagonists, and of the battle's place in the context of the Plains Indian Wars.