Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn

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Custer’s Last Stand is without doubt one of the most enduring events in American history–multiple hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even essentially the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as “certainly one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers,” wrote what continues to be essentially 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-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this a very powerful chapter within the history of the West.

On June 25, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and a few 200 cavalrymen under his command blundered into a coulee along the banks of Montana’s Little Bighorn River. They never came out; several thousand Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho warriors saw to that. The name and the event of the Little Bighorn have due to this fact entered into American mythology, reverberating all the way through the nation’s history. Custer’s famous demise has yielded thousands of books, and Son of the Morning Star is exceptional among them: part anthropological study of Plains Indian life, part military history, and part character study of the principal actors within the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Evan Connell’s work presents the first actually balanced account of Custer’s career.

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