| Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth Revised Edition Contributor(s): Leckie, Shirley A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806130962 ISBN-13: 9780806130965 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: George Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Bighorn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie", a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 92050717 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.91" W x 9.22" (1.34 lbs) 444 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Georger Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of Libbie, a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.
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Contributor Bio(s): Leckie, Shirley A.: - Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian. |
