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General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs: A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn

By (author) Brian Patrick Duggan

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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.

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Publisher | McFarland & Co Inc
Published date | 22 Mar 2019
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 361
Dimensions | 254 x 178 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 635g
ISBN | 978-1-4766-6954-0
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BISAC | history / general


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