Custer / Larry McMurtry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 178, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781451626209
  • 1451626207
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.8/2092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E467.1.C99 M4 2012
Contents:
BY LARRY MCMURTY. The Berrybender Narratives -- Hollywood: A Third Memoir -- Literary Life: A Second Memoir -- Rhino Ranch -- Books: A Memoir -- When the Light Goes -- Telegraph Days -- Oh What a Slaughter -- The Colonel and Little Missie -- Loop Group -- Folly and Glory -- By Sorrow's River -- The Wandering Hill -- Sin Killer -- Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West -- Paradise -- Boone's Lick -- Roads -- Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West, 1950 to the Present -- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen -- Duane's Depressed -- Crazy Horse -- Comanche Moon -- Dead Man's Walk -- The Late Child -- Streets of Laredo -- The Evening Star -- Buffalo Girls -- Some Can Whistle -- Anything for Billy -- Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood -- Texasville -- Lonesome Dove -- The Desert Rose -- Cadillac Jack -- Somebody's Darling -- Terms of Endearment -- All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers -- Moving On -- The Last Picture Show -- In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas -- Leaving Cheyenne -- Horseman, Pass By.
BY LARRY MCMURTY AND DIANA OSSANA. Pretty Boy Floyd -- Zeke and Ned.
Summary: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic defeat clearly signaled the end of the Indian Wars--and brought to a close the great narrative of western expansion.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 179).

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic defeat clearly signaled the end of the Indian Wars--and brought to a close the great narrative of western expansion.

BY LARRY MCMURTY. The Berrybender Narratives -- Hollywood: A Third Memoir -- Literary Life: A Second Memoir -- Rhino Ranch -- Books: A Memoir -- When the Light Goes -- Telegraph Days -- Oh What a Slaughter -- The Colonel and Little Missie -- Loop Group -- Folly and Glory -- By Sorrow's River -- The Wandering Hill -- Sin Killer -- Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West -- Paradise -- Boone's Lick -- Roads -- Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West, 1950 to the Present -- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen -- Duane's Depressed -- Crazy Horse -- Comanche Moon -- Dead Man's Walk -- The Late Child -- Streets of Laredo -- The Evening Star -- Buffalo Girls -- Some Can Whistle -- Anything for Billy -- Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood -- Texasville -- Lonesome Dove -- The Desert Rose -- Cadillac Jack -- Somebody's Darling -- Terms of Endearment -- All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers -- Moving On -- The Last Picture Show -- In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas -- Leaving Cheyenne -- Horseman, Pass By.

BY LARRY MCMURTY AND DIANA OSSANA. Pretty Boy Floyd -- Zeke and Ned.

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