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Custer, George.Pdf U.S. Army Military History Institute Biographies 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021 20 Jan 2012 GEORGE A. CUSTER A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources CONTENTS Bibliographies & Reference Sources.....p.1 General Sources.....p.2 Civil War…..p.4 Since 1865 (Less Little Big Horn)…..p.5 Disciplinary Events.....p.8 (Brother) Thomas Custer…..p.8 BIBLIOGRAPHIES & REFERENCE SOURCES Carroll, John M. Custer in Periodicals: A Bibliographic Checklist. Ft Collins: Old Army Press, 1975. 134 p. Z8206.7.C3. Dowd, James P. Custer Lives! Fairfield, WA: YeGalleon, 1982. 263 p. Z1209.2.U52.W86. Lists 3,114 items, each annotated. Engebretson, Darold E. Medals for the General: A History of Awards for General Custer for Gallant and Meritorious Service. El Segundo, CA: Upton & Sons, 2007. 203 p. E467.1.C99.E54. Graham, William A. The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custerania to Which is Added Important Items of Custerania and a Complete and Comprehensive Bibliography. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1953. 413 p. E83.876.G7. Hardorff, Richard G. Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight: A Source Book. Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clarke, 1995. 189 p. E83.876.C54. Hatch, Thom. The Custer Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to the Life of George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indian Wars. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2002. 274 p. E467.1.C99.H38. Hedren, Paul L. King on Custer: An Annotated Bibliography. n.p., 1982? 12 p. Z8464.35.H43. Charles King, that is, Army officer & novelist of the late 19th century Army. Research Review. Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates. Per. Incomplete holdings 1970-current. George A. Custer p.2 GENERAL SOURCES Arnold, David B. “A Psychohistorical Investigation of the Personality and Leadership of General George Custer.” PhD dss, Gonzaga, 2000. 266 p. E467.1.C99.A76. Barnett, Louise K. Touched by Fire: The Life, Death and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer. NY: Henry Holt, 1996. 540 p. E467.1.C99.B27. Budiansky, Stephen. “Judging George Custer.” Civil War Times (Feb 2011): pp. 36-43. Per. Argues that you cannot judge the complete man based on the last day of his life. Carroll, John M. Custer and His Times: Book Two. Ft Worth, TX: Little Big Horn Association, 1984. 336 p. E467.1.C99.C78. _____. A Custer Chrestomathy. Bryan, TX: Carroll, 1981. 87 p. E467.1.C99.C79. _____. General Custer and New Rumley, Ohio. Bryan, TX: Carroll, 1978. 47 p. E467.1.C99.C3. _____. A Very Real Salamagundi, or, Look What I Found This Summer. Bryan, TX: Carroll, 1980. 66 p. E83.876.C66. Connell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star. San Francisco, CA: North Point, 1984. 441 p. E83.876.C66. Cox, Kurt H. Custer and his Commands: From West Point to Little Bighorn. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1999. 72 p. UE443.C68. Custer, Bruce C. The Sacrificial Lion: George Armstrong Custer From American Hero to Media Villain. El Segundo, CA: Upton, 1999. 293 p. E467.1.C99.C77. Custer, Elizabeth B. Boots and Saddles. Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1969 reprint of 1885 edition. 312 p. F655.C932. _____. Following the Guidon. NY: Harper, 1904. 314 p. F594.C95. Custer, George A. & Elizabeth. The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of.... [Edited by Marguerite Merington]. Lincoln, NE: U NE, 1987. 339 p. E467.1.C99.A335. Dippie, Brian W. Nomad: George A. Custer in Turf, A Field and Farm. Austin, TX: U TX, 1980. 174 p. E467.1.C99.A34. Donovan, Jim. Custer and the Little Bighorn: The Man, the Mystery, the Myth. Vancouver, Canada: Voyageur, 2001. 224 p. E467.1.C99.D66. Elliott, Michael A. Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. Chicago, IL: U Chicago, 2007. 336 p. E83.876.E55. George A. Custer p.3 Frost, Lawrence A. The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography of General George A. Custer. Seattle, WA: Superior, 1964. 192 p. E83.876.F7. _____. Custer Legends. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular Press, 1981. 251 p. E467.1.C99.F74. _____. Custer Slept Here. Monroe, MI: Gary Owen, 1974. 22 p. E467.1.C99.F94. _____. General Custer's Libbie. Seattle, WA: Superior, 1976. 336 p. E467.1.C995.F76. Haynes, C. Vance. General Custer and his Sporting Rifles. Tuscon, AZ: Westernlore, 1995. 100 p. UD390.H39. Hutton, Paul A. The Custer Reader. Lincoln, NE: U NE, 1992. 575 p. E467.1.C99.C85. _____. Custer and His Times. El Paso, TX: Little Big Horn Assoc, 1981. 272 p. E467.1.C99.C78. Katz, D. Mark. Custer in Photographs. Gettysburg, PA: Yo-Mark, 1985. 150 p. E467.1.C99.K34. Kaufman, Fred S. Custer Passed Our Way. Aberdeen, SC: North Plains, 1971. 365 p. F655.K3. Koury, Michael J. Custer Centennial Observance, 1976. Ft. Collins, CO: Old Army, 1978. 108 p. E83.876.C985. Langellier, Jphn P. Custer; The May, the Myth, the Movies. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2000. 146 p. E83.876.C983. Leckie, Shirley A. “The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer.” In Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. NY: Oxford, 2001. pp. 178-98. E467.I58. McChristian, Douglas C. “Plainsman—or Showman?: George A. Custer’s Buckskins.” Military Collector & Historian (Spring 2000): pp. 2-13. Per. Mathias, Elizabeth. “A Memorial to Forgetting: Libbie Custer’s Re-vision of General Custer’s Legacy.” War, Literature & the Arts No. 21 (2009): pp. 21-32. Per. Monaghan, Jay. Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer. Lincoln, NE: U NE, 1971 reprint of 1959 edition. E467.1.C99.M652. Ray, Frederick L. “Friends Across Secession.” America’s Civil War (Jul 2003): 30-36. Per. Friendship of George Custer and Stephan D. Ramseur, CSA. Robbins, James S. Last in Their Class: Custer, Picket and the Goats of West Point. NY: Encounter Books, 2006. 503 p. E181.R63. George A. Custer p.4 Spiller, Roger J., editor. Dictionary of American Military Biography. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984. pp. 223-27. U52.D53. Urwin, Gregory J. W., editor. Custer and His Times. Book Three. Ft Worth, TX: Little Big Horn Association, 1987. 305 p. E467.1.C99.C78. Utley, Robert M. Custer and Me: A Historian’s Memoir. Norman, OK: U OK, 2004. 253 p. E175.5.U85.A3. Relationship of National Park Service historian with development of historiography of Custer and the Little Big Horn Site. Van de Water, Frederick F. Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer. NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934. 394 p. E467.1.C99.V3. Wert, Jeffry D. Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 462 p. E467.1.C99.W47. Whittaker, Frederick. A Complete Life of General George A. Custer. NY: Sheldon, 1876. 648 p. E467.1.C99.W62. And Tolzmann, Don H., editor. Custer: Frederick Whittaker’s Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Major General of Volunteers, Brevet Major U.S. Army and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry. 2 vols. Bowie, MD: Heritage, 1993. E467.1.C99.W6. _____. A Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer, Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U.S. Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry. NY: Sheldon, 1876. 648 p. E467.1.C99.W63. See also: -Photos in collections of B.F. Fiske, E.S. Godfrey, M.F. Steele, PhotoArch. CIVIL WAR Carroll, John M., editor. Custer in the Civil War: His Unfinished Memoirs. San Rafael, CA: Presidio, 1977. 233 p. E467.1.C99.A33. Christiancy-Pickett Papers. 1 Box. Arch. Includes 1862 diary, 1st Michigan Infantry and photocopied letter from Custer, 1863. Harris, Samuel. Stories of the Civil War. Chicago: Harris, 1898. 15 p. E467.1.C99.H37. Contents include "Major General George A. Custer: Stories Told Around the Campfire of the Michigan Brigade Cavalry." George A. Custer p.5 Hatch, Thom. Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2001. 291 p. E467.H425. O’Neill, Robert J., Jr. “George Custer’s Ascension to Command the Wolverines.” Blue & Gray Magazine Vol. 26, No. 3 (2009): pp. 26-29. Per. Riggs, David F. East of Gettysburg [Stuart vs. Custer]. Bellevue, NE: Old Army Press, 1970. 78 p. E475.51.R535. On the battle on East Cavalry Field, third day of Gettysburg. Urwin, Gregory J.W. Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson, 1982. 308 p. E467.2.C99.U78. See also: -East Cavalry Field Section of Gettysburg-July 3 bibliography in Civil War-Battles-1863-Gettysburg; Portraits of Custer in MOLLUS-Mass Collection; and in collections of B.F. Fiske, E.S. Godfrey & Matthew.F. Steele. PhotoArch. SINCE 1865 (LESS 1876 CAMPAIGN) Bates, Charles F. Custer's Indian Battles. Bronxville, NY: n.p., 1936. 36 p. E467.1.C99.B3. Calhoun, James. With Custer in '74: James Calhoun's Diary of the Black Hills Expedition. [Edited by Lawrence A. Frost] Provo, UT: BYU, 1979. 140 p. F657.B6C35. Carroll, John M., ed. Custer: From the Civil War to the Little Big Horn. Bryan, TX: Carroll, 1981. 65 p. E467.1.C99.C8. _____. Custer in Texas: An Interrupted Narrative: Including Narratives of the First Iowa Cavalry, the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, and the Military Mutiny in Custer's Command While in Louisiana. NY: Lewis, 1975. 288 p. E467.1.C99.C82. _____. Custer's Horse-Shoe. New Brunswick, NJ: Carroll, 1977. 7 p. E81.J6no1. _____. The Fred Dustin and Earl K. Brigham Letters: Book 2. Bryan, TX: Carroll, 1977. 30 p. E81.J6no7. _____. A Seventh Cavalry Scrapbook #4.
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