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.
| Autorius: | Brian Patrick Duggan |
| Leidėjas: | McFarland |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2019 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 362 |
| ISBN-10: | 1476669546 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781476669540 |
| Formatas: | 254 x 178 x 20 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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