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...never been to Chicago-or, for that matter, to the U.S.-he delightedly recognized pictures of Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. "Mon ami Hemingway," he exclaimed, then explained that he had taught the novelist all about bullfighting. On subsequent trips, Hartmann captured Picasso's fancy with a Sioux Indian war bonnet and a White Sox baseball...
...rebuilt Stagecoach has a passenger list roughly equivalent to the original's but the trip from Dryfork to Cheyenne through Sioux territory is dull going. Mostly, the air of mounting crisis is indicated by having the actors glare at one another. As the fugitive Ringo Kid, Alex Cord can barely squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought...
This story, Jackson says, is almost-but not quite-true. After a meticulous study of military records and diaries, he convincingly argues that Custer's expedition into the Dakotas was simply a military reconnaissance and fully permissible under the treaty with the Sioux. Custer did find gold but, being a notorious glory hunter, he grossly exaggerated the amount. On his return, he urged that the Indians be compelled to give up the Black Hills for the good of white civilization. The Government tried to pressure the Indians into selling out, but failed; then it opened a military campaign against...
...March at 68, confirms this in her admirable account of the battle. Like most historians, she agrees that Custer was guilty of military stupidity when he divided his attacking force of about 650 men into three groups and placed them too far apart to support each other effectively. The Sioux, recovering from their surprise, made short work of Custer and the 212 cavalrymen whom he led. His last stand probably lasted no longer than 20 minutes. Afterward, the bodies of the soldiers were stripped and mutilated and left to rot in the sun. Most of the bloated, discolored corpses found...
...year-old soldier was burning to be President of the U.S. He began his march toward the Little Bighorn on June 22, five days before the Democratic National Convention was to meet in St. Louis. Custer, according to the author, hoped to achieve a spectacular victory over the Sioux, after which the convention would be stampeded into rewarding him with the presidential nomination. Just how Custer expected to achieve this in so short a time is left unexplained. Actually, his death was not reported to the nation until July 5. By that time, the Democrats had nominated Samuel J. Tilden...