General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs (eBook)

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

Duggan Brian Patrick Duggan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
361 Seiten
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4766-3487-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4766-3487-4 / 1476634874
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-3487-6 / 9781476634876