A01=Evan S Connell
america
american civil war
american west
americana
anthropology
archaeology
Author_Evan S Connell
british history
business
california
Category=JW
Category=NHK
civil war
culture
dad
economics
education
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
european history
exploration
feminism
feminist
genealogy
geography
georgia
historical romance
history
history books
horses
journalism
leadership
letters
mexico
military
military history
native american
nature
outdoor
penguin classics
pirates
presidents
race
san francisco
society
sociology
spain
texas
travel writing
us history
vietnam
western
westerns
world history
world war 2
writing
ww2
wwii
Product details
- ISBN 9781844137633
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Evan S. Connell, long recognised as one of the most important American literary voices, is the author of seventeen books, including Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Deus lo Volt: A Chronicle of the Crusades and El Dorado & Other Pursuits (both available in Pimlico). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
