| Custer and Me: A Historian's Memoir Contributor(s): Utley, Robert M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806136383 ISBN-13: 9780806136387 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2004 Annotation: A renowned western historian narrates his own life and career. 6 x 9, 35 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004046035 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.32" W x 9.42" (1.25 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: In Custer and Me, renowned western historian and expert on historic preservation, Robert M. Utley, turns his talents to his own life and career. Through lively personal narrative, Utley offers an insider's view of Park Service workings and problems, both at regional and national levels, during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Utley also details the birth of the Western History Association, early national historic-preservation programs, and the many clashes over "symbolic possession" of what is now the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Readers will discover how a teenager smitten with Custermania came as an adult to appreciate the full complexity of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and its interpretation and to research and write narrative histories of the American West that have appealed to popular audiences while winning highest honors from the scholarly and writing communities. |
Contributor Bio(s): Utley, Robert M.: - Robert M. Utley served in the National Park Service for 25 years in various capacities, including Chief Historian from 1964 to 1972. Since his retirement from the federal government in 1980, he has devoted himself full-time to historical research and writing with a specialty in the American West. He is author, among many articles and books he has published, of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier, Revised Edition; Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers; and The Commanders: Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West. A founder of the Western History Association, Utley has served on its governing council and as its president. |