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...CUSTER'S GOLD by Donald Jackson. 152 pages. Yale...
Lithe and handsome in fringed white buckskin, his golden mane glinting in the sunlight, dashing George Armstrong Custer stood before a tattered guidon of the Seventh Cavalry, smiting bloodthirsty Sioux hip and thigh. Finally, standing tall, his dead troops strewn about him, Custer faced a climactic Indian charge singlehanded and became the last man to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn...
That was the way Errol Flynn did it in They Died With Their Boots On in 1941. How George Custer himself did it 90 years ago last month-on June 25, 1876-is still a good question, since there were no survivors of Custer's command. Why the vain lieutenant colonel, who at 24 had been a major general in the Civil War, got into such a predicament in the first place, and especially why the Sioux pounced on him with such ferocity, has always been debated. Now these two small but impressively researched books offer a concise account...
...second quarter the Indians hit the warpath, and Princeton's reputation of invincibility and its 17-game winning streak went the way of Custer...
...educated as a civil engineer, turned up again at 20 as manager of a dilapidated hotel in Grafton, Ohio, left town trailing a cloud of debts. In the confusion of wartime mobilization, he was made a colonel at 23, organized the 7th Michigan Cavalry, later fought heroically under General Custer at Gettysburg...