General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs : A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn Paperback / softback
by Brian Patrick Duggan
Part of the Dogs in Our World series
Paperback / softback
Description
General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie Custer, were wholehearted dog lovers.
At the time of his death at Little Bighorn, they owned a rollicking pack of 40 hunting dogs, including Scottish Deerhounds, Russian Wolfhounds, Greyhounds and Foxhounds.
Told from a dog owner's perspective, this biography covers their first dogs during the Civil War and in Texas; hunting on the Kansas and Dakota frontiers; entertaining tourist buffalo hunters, including a Russian Archduke, English aristocrats and P.
T. Barnum (all of whom presented the general with hounds); Custer's attack on the Washita village (when he was accused of strangling his own dogs); and the 7th Cavalry's march to Little Bighorn with an analysis of rumors about a Last Stand dog.
The Custers' pack was re-homed after his death in the first national dog rescue effort.
Well illustrated, the book includes an appendix giving depictions of the Custers' dogs in art, literature and film.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:361 pages, 55 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:22/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476669540
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:361 pages, 55 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:22/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476669540
