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 ...
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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 of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly scuffed & creased in a mylar cover.
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illus. VG+/VG (presume this is actually a book club edition-see notes) 419pp. Front cover notes 'History Book Club Selection", but print line from 1, verso notes 'meets permanence' standards. 1/4 cloth bind.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. 419 pages. Dust jacket has 1/2" tear, no chips. Dust jacket with blue background is different than the stock image.
