Custer’s Last Stand (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Quentin J. Reynolds
- First Published: 1951
- Time of Work: 1839–1876
- Setting: Ohio, Michigan, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Montana
- Principal Characters: George Armstrong Custer, Emmanuel Custer, Reverend Boyd, Tom Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Native Americans or American Indians, War, Military life or service, Massacres, Biography, Battles, Generals
- Locales: Virginia, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Montana
Form and Content
Custer’s Last Stand is the story of George Armstrong Custer from the time that he was four years old and living in New Rumley, Ohio, to his death in battle against Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull near the Little Bighorn River. The title of the book is somewhat deceptive because only a part of it actually deals with Custer’s last heroic stand. What Quentin J. Reynolds has done is to tell, in very personal terms, how Custer saw his boyhood dreams come true. He not only became the youngest general in the army during the Civil War but also gained fame as a...
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