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Custer's Last Stand remains iconic in American history. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighorn, the victory may have been one among many, while in defeat, he became legend. In Inventing Custer, Caudill and Ashdown bridge the gap between the true Custer and the one immortalized into legend in our generally accepted reading of American history.
List of contents
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Two. Custer Before the Civil War
Chapter Three. Custer During the Civil War
Chapter Four. Custer in the West and the Last Stand
Chapter Five. Custer in the News
Chapter Six. The Frontier and the Fittest
Chapter Seven. Custer Among the Historians
Chapter Eight. Custer in Literature and Popular Culture
Chapter Nine. Custer in Myth and Memory
Chapter Ten. Conclusions/Custer in the Future
About the author
Ed Caudill is a retired journalism professor who taught at the University of Tennessee for more than 30 years. He spent summers meandering the country, and beyond, with his two sons, and in the school year he taught editing and history. At UT, his books earned him tenure and ire, being outside the usual academic dreariness of jargon-laden journals that no one read. His numerous books have focused largely, but not exclusively, on American imagination and memory. With co-author and professor emeritus Paul Ashdown, those books have looked at Civil War figures. Caudill's other work have looked at the impact of Darwinism in American culture, from publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 through the 1925 Scopes Trial. He continues to write between road trips around the country, especially to places that offer good fly fishing from Georgia to Alaska.
