Brian Patrick Duggan

General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs

A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 681g
• ISBN-13: 9781476669540
• ISBN-10: 1476669546
• Artikelnr.: 52962185

Autorenporträt

Brian Patrick Duggan is the author of numerous articles on canine history which have been published in AKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, Sighthound Review, Show Sight, The Private Journey, and Greasy Grass: The Journal of the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association. He is a retired university technology educator and an active American Kennel Club judge.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Paul L. Hedren Preface A Note to the Reader Prologue 1: Judge Bacon's Daughter
Tail Piece: The Havelock-Hollywood-Custer Connection 2: That Custer Boy
Tail Piece: A Cadet and His Dog 3: Armstrong Ascendant
Tail Piece: P.T. Barnum's Civil War Dog Show 4: My Husband's Dogs
Tail Pieces: The Sporting Ritual of Foxhunting in America
Slave Tracking and Prison Guard Dogs 5: The Texas Pack
Tail Pieces: Libbie Custer and Persian Greyhounds-Two Degrees of Separation
Dogs as Property in the 19th Century 6: Kansas-Hunting Game and Chasing Indians
Tail Pieces: Scotch Stag Hounds and Chinese Edible Dogs-Victorian Breed Terminology
Army Dogs: Birth, Sutures and Death 7: Kansas and Indian Territory: Bloody Snow
Tail Piece: Did Armstrong Kill His Own Dogs at Washita? 8: The Tourist Hunters
Tail Piece: Plagiarizing Lord Byron
Barnum and the Grand Hoboken Buffalo Hunt
9: Blue Grass, Pvt. Burkman, and the Grand Duke Alexis
Tail Piece: Russian Wolfhounds Emigrate to America 10: Paw Prints on the Yellowstone
Tail Piece: Sir St. George Gore's Greyhounds Populate the West
Sighthounds vs. Antelope 11: Fort Lincoln and the Black Hills
Tail Piece: California Joe and His Custer Hound
Tailless Dogs 12: The Last Dog Deals and the March to Little Bighorn
Tail Piece: Custer's First Stand 13: Dog Rumors and the Last Stand Hoax
Tail Piece: Rusty's Improbable History 14: The Widow Custer's Burden Epilogue: Custer's Last Hound Appendix: General Custer's Dogs in Art, Literature and Film Chapter Notes Bibliography Index