Son of The Morning Star
Perhaps no episode in American history has done so much to forge our attitudes and national character as the usurpation of Indian lands in the exorable passage of westward settlement. And no incident in that struggle has overshadowed in our imagination the obliteration of General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet the human story of the battle, of the federal and Indian antagonists, and of the battle’s place in the context of the Plains Indian Wars has never been so marvelously told. Mr. Connell has brought his skills as a story-teller to this meticulously researched book, part biography of Custer, part history of the Plains Indian Wars. Mr. Connell dwells on the rare human details historians often ignore: he tells of Crazy Horse on a pilgrimage to the burial scaffold of his infant daughter; Lt. Calhoun—who probably mounted the only organized defense at the Little Bighorn—carrying a cake into battle; Chief Gall listening to Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Yet within the participants’ common humanity lay a common savagery—Mr. Connell recalls the graffiti scribbled by a seventeenth—century French deserter in Illinois: Nous sommes tous sauvages.
ID: COFV476
Color: Black, Beige, Red
Condition: Fair, with light general wear/Some markings
Author: Evan S. Connell
All measurements are approximate
Length: 9.25in.
Width: 6.25in.
Height: 1.5in.
Perhaps no episode in American history has done so much to forge our attitudes and national character as the usurpation of Indian lands in the exorable passage of westward settlement. And no incident in that struggle has overshadowed in our imagination the obliteration of General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet the human story of the battle, of the federal and Indian antagonists, and of the battle’s place in the context of the Plains Indian Wars has never been so marvelously told. Mr. Connell has brought his skills as a story-teller to this meticulously researched book, part biography of Custer, part history of the Plains Indian Wars. Mr. Connell dwells on the rare human details historians often ignore: he tells of Crazy Horse on a pilgrimage to the burial scaffold of his infant daughter; Lt. Calhoun—who probably mounted the only organized defense at the Little Bighorn—carrying a cake into battle; Chief Gall listening to Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Yet within the participants’ common humanity lay a common savagery—Mr. Connell recalls the graffiti scribbled by a seventeenth—century French deserter in Illinois: Nous sommes tous sauvages.
ID: COFV476
Color: Black, Beige, Red
Condition: Fair, with light general wear/Some markings
Author: Evan S. Connell
All measurements are approximate
Length: 9.25in.
Width: 6.25in.
Height: 1.5in.
Perhaps no episode in American history has done so much to forge our attitudes and national character as the usurpation of Indian lands in the exorable passage of westward settlement. And no incident in that struggle has overshadowed in our imagination the obliteration of General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet the human story of the battle, of the federal and Indian antagonists, and of the battle’s place in the context of the Plains Indian Wars has never been so marvelously told. Mr. Connell has brought his skills as a story-teller to this meticulously researched book, part biography of Custer, part history of the Plains Indian Wars. Mr. Connell dwells on the rare human details historians often ignore: he tells of Crazy Horse on a pilgrimage to the burial scaffold of his infant daughter; Lt. Calhoun—who probably mounted the only organized defense at the Little Bighorn—carrying a cake into battle; Chief Gall listening to Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Yet within the participants’ common humanity lay a common savagery—Mr. Connell recalls the graffiti scribbled by a seventeenth—century French deserter in Illinois: Nous sommes tous sauvages.
ID: COFV476
Color: Black, Beige, Red
Condition: Fair, with light general wear/Some markings
Author: Evan S. Connell
All measurements are approximate
Length: 9.25in.
Width: 6.25in.
Height: 1.5in.