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Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong, by Michael A. Elliott

“No sooner had I finished reviewing Michael Wallis’s recent biography of Billy the Kid for this journal than what should come in the next day’s mail but Michael Elliott’s excellent new book Custerology, about that other hardy perennial of western legend, sometime General George Armstrong Custer, who with more than 250 men of the Seventh Cavalry, which he commanded, met his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in southern Montana, on the afternoon of June 25, 1876.” Read the review at New York Review of Books.

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