Review of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier

Authors

Michael L. Tate, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Date of this Version

1990

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

More than a century has elapsed since George Armstrong Custer led his command into a military disaster on the hills above the Little Big Horn River. Yet public fascination with this man and his immortalized "Last Stand" has never waned as each new generation hungers for definitive explanations of his enigmatic life.