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| Original Title: | Son of the Morning Star |
| ISBN: | 0330293400 (ISBN13: 9780330293402) |
| Setting: | Montana,1876(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1985), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1984) |
Evan S. Connell
Paperback | Pages: 441 pages Rating: 4.14 | 2529 Users | 164 Reviews
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On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers - fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier - including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer - had survived.Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 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 research and novelist's eye for story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
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| Title | : | Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| Author | : | Evan S. Connell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 441 pages |
| Published | : | August 8th 1986 by Picador (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | History. Biography. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. War. Westerns |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 2529 Users | 164 ReviewsAssess Epithetical Books Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Fascinating take on the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It pretty much strips Custer of his hero status......history had made him a doomed warrior standing alone against a vicious foe when in fact, the truth is somewhat at odds with that perception. This book has been questioned as to its historic veracity but I found it to be gripping and well researched. The "Last Stand", romanticized in the same manner as the Charge of the Light Brigade, will always be open to conjecture but this is a rippingOUTSTANDING! What an incredibly well researched book. I feel like a fool for having ignored for years on the mistaken belief that it was a novel.One real eye-opener was the number of soldiers who were able to flee the fight. Bodies were found twenty miles from the fighting. Maybe some of the stories about survivors were true. The magazine WILD WEST had an interesting article about one such survivor, and it certainly rang true to me.
I wrote papers and gave speeches in my college history and philosophy classes. The very first time I visited the site, I was basically ignorant because I had not begun to study this battle. Luckily, I studied a great deal, and was able to come away with awe and to know exactly where what event took place and where. This book is one of the main books I used in my studies. If you read about all that happened and viewed the maps, you will be in a very good position to truly see the scope of the
You don't get a better piece of history than this. Connell gives flesh and bones to General Custer, a most peculiar man, but goes much further in providing the context of the time, the Indians of all stripes and the landscape. There are no Noble Savages here, but no ignoble ones either. They (and Custer) are real people dealing with the complexities of their time and place, and often with their own personal demons.
I love this book. It goes past the massacre (or great military victory, depending on your point of view) and delves into the personalities of the principal opponents involved in this fracas. Of course, eyewitness reports were only available from one side, but they seem objective enough. This might be the only book I've read three times.
Son of the Morning Star is one of the best books that I've ever read. It propelled me into reading more about American Indians, more about the West, more military biographies especially of American generals, and even the Civil War. Connell is a great writer, as seen in, for example, both novels--Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge. He made the character of the Indians real, as it should be, and Custer, whom I had not judged as harshly as I did after this book. I personally knew people in my limited
"My estimate of Reno and Custer is this: The former was brave but not rash, and Custer was both," wrote a First Cavalry acquaintance of Custer. As I read this book, I tried to imagine the vast American West as an ocean of grass, imbued with danger, distance and the chance for honor, not unlike the high seas of Nelson and Farragut. It wasn't too hard to conjure. At the same time, I expected a view of the Army as a blunt instrument of national policy, often stupid and genocidal. This also was easy
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