General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs

A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn

Brian Patrick Duggan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

361 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6954-0 (ISBN)

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The first book to seriously explore the little known history of General George Armstrong and Libbie Custer as wholehearted dog lovers. Told engagingly through a dog owner's lens, this biography tells the story of the Custers' lives through their dogs.

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.

Brian Patrick Duggan is a canine historian and author of several books and numerous articles about dogs in history. He is a retired university technology educator and an American Kennel Club judge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Paul L. Hedren

Preface

A Note to the Reader

Prologue

1: Judge Bacon’s Daughter

• Tail Piece: The Havelock-Hollywood-Custer Connection

2: That Custer Boy

• Tail Piece: A Cadet and His Dog

3: Armstrong Ascendant

• Tail Piece: P.T. Barnum’s Civil War Dog Show

4: My Husband’s Dogs

• Tail Pieces: The Sporting Ritual of Foxhunting in America

• Slave Tracking and Prison Guard Dogs

5: The Texas Pack

• Tail Pieces: Libbie Custer and Persian Greyhounds—Two Degrees of Separation

• Dogs as Property in the 19th Century

6: Kansas—Hunting Game and Chasing Indians

• Tail Pieces: Scotch Stag Hounds and Chinese Edible Dogs—Victorian Breed Terminology

• Army Dogs: Birth, Sutures and Death

7: Kansas and Indian Territory: Bloody Snow

• Tail Piece: Did Armstrong Kill His Own Dogs at Washita?

8: The Tourist Hunters

• Tail Piece: Plagiarizing Lord Byron

• Barnum and the Grand Hoboken Buffalo Hunt

9: Blue Grass, Pvt. Burkman, and the Grand Duke Alexis

• Tail Piece: Russian Wolfhounds Emigrate to America

10: Paw Prints on the Yellowstone

• Tail Piece: Sir St. George Gore’s Greyhounds Populate the West

• Sighthounds vs. Antelope

11: Fort Lincoln and the Black Hills

• Tail Piece: California Joe and His Custer Hound

• Tailless Dogs

12: The Last Dog Deals and the March to Little Bighorn

• Tail Piece: Custer’s First Stand

13: Dog Rumors and the Last Stand Hoax

• Tail Piece: Rusty’s Improbable History

14: The Widow Custer’s Burden

Epilogue: Custer’s Last Hound

Appendix: General Custer’s Dogs in Art, Literature and Film

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Dogs in Our World
Zusatzinfo	55 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-6954-6 / 1476669546
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6954-0 / 9781476669540
Zustand	Neuware