Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
Georger Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of Libbie, a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8061-2501-5
- EAN: 9780806125015
- Produktnummer: 1649520
- Verlag: Arthur H Clark Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 444 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.4 cm 789 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 789
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