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Son Of The Morning Star: Custer And The Little Bighorn

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By Evan S. Connell
Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux Inc
Son Of The Morning Star: Custer And The Little Bighorn
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Custers Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American historymore than one hundred 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 reliableand compulsively readableaccount of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelists eye for the story and detail to revreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

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193454 words193,454 words
448 pages448 pages
Lexile 1170LLexile 1170L
Grade 9 to 12Grade 9 to 12
Age 14-17Age 14-17
Published 1997Published 1997

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9780606265874

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