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Original Title:	Son of the Morning Star
ISBN:	0330293400 (ISBN13: 9780330293402)
Setting:	Montana,1876(United States)
Literary Awards:	Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1985), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1984)

Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Evan S. Connell

Paperback | Pages: 441 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 2529 Users | 164 Reviews

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Title	:	Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Author	:	Evan S. Connell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 441 pages
Published	:	August 8th 1986 by Picador (first published 1984)
Categories	:	History. Biography. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. War. Westerns

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On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers - fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier - including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer - had survived.
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn.
Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers', wrote what continues to be the most reliable - and compulsively readable - account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his research and novelist's eye for story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

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Goes beyond the mythical character and gives a good how and why.

I'm not especially interested in Custer or the American West, and I generally avoid anything about the Indian Wars because the subject is tragic and infuriating to the point that it affects my ability to function normally. But this is a terrific book. It's a lot like listening to a vastly informed elderly relative natter on about his most beloved subject. It's discursive, but all the meanderings are full of treasures, and you can't help being swept up in his enthusiasm and affection. It's

Anyone interested in the American West will enjoy this book. Although Custer graces the cover, it's much more than a biography of him. Let's face it, there's a lot to criticize about the American Government's treatment of the Native Americans. Those facts, of course, are in the book. But the author doesn't write a hagiography about the Indians either. He's much too good a historian to do that. His even-handed treatment doesn't make for drab reading, on the contrary, the author has done such a

This is a great book. It is way more than just a story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The battle is just the glue that holds the book together. The author goes into the lives of Custer, other soldiers, their wives, scouts, traders, trappers, journalists, politicians and others. Then there are the Indians, their various tribes, customs and motivations. The books covers the time before and during the battle, plus the aftermath (from both sides). It brings in buffalo hunting, the gold rush

I wish I had read Son of the Morning Star before going to the Custer memorial in Montana. I had read enough of Custer to understand the battle, but the personal stories Connell uses to build to the battle make it all the more interesting. I do like how Connell recounts the different versions of stories by soldier, native American, observer, and then says "it could have been that way, or another."Custer, of course, does not shine in this story, but others do.

I wrote papers and gave speeches in my college history and philosophy classes. The very first time I visited the site, I was basically ignorant because I had not begun to study this battle. Luckily, I studied a great deal, and was able to come away with awe and to know exactly where what event took place and where. This book is one of the main books I used in my studies. If you read about all that happened and viewed the maps, you will be in a very good position to truly see the scope of the

Once in a while you find a book that is so well written that beyond the days of reading, long after you have finished it, the book continues to haunt you. Son of the Morning Star is one of those books. The beauty of Evan Connell's prose and the excellence of his history make this book a minor masterpiece. Perhaps the larger-than-life presence of the central character, who the Indians named "son of the morning star", General George Armstrong Custer, is partly the reason for the magnificence of