Custers Last

Custers Last: The Battle of the Little Big Horn in Picturesque Perspective by Don Russell. Published by Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Ft Worth, TX, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardbound in Glassine Protected DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Good DJ. Glassine DJ protection taped to DJ. Shelf wear on boards, overall content excellent. 67+ Pgs. LCCN 68-19219. Stored inside front cover of book are several 80s-90s Billings Gazette newspaper clippings regarding Custer, the battlefield, and Indians; a Smithsonian Magazine article by David Ewing Duncan titled The Object at Hand regarding Kicking Bear, Sioux Warrior, Medicine Man and artist; plus 20 page pamphlet about the Reno-Benteen Entrenchment Trail, Custer Battlefield National Monument. The book is not a rehash of the battle. It is a study of the innumerable graphic accounts - paintings, woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, drawings, wood carvings and wax models - and the artists and illustrators who produced them. It is a catalogue of many, but not all, of the 848 known depictions, with reproductions of 15 of the lesser-known examples. Description text copyright 2017 BooksForComfort. Item ID 31800.