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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors ISBN: 0743468643 ISBN13: 9780743468640 Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors By: Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher: Pocket Books Format: Paperback Our Price: 6.74 Discount: 25% RRP: 8.99

From bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose, a dual biography of two great nineteenth century warriors, General Custer and Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Little Bighorn. On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great war leaders would soon become forever linked: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. This masterly dual biography tells the epic story of the lives of these two men: both were fighters of legendary daring, both became honoured leaders in their societies when still astonishingly young, and both died when close to the supreme political heights. Yet they - like the nations they represented - were as different as day and night. Custer had won his spurs in the American Civil War; his watchword was 'To promotion - or death!' and his restless ambition characterized a white nation in search of expansion and progress. Crazy Horse fought for a nomadic way of life fast yielding before the buffalo-hunters and the incursions of the white man. The Great Plains of North America provided the stage - and the prize.


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The lives of Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux and General George Armstrong Custer, leader of the US Seventh Cavalry, were forever linked when they faced each other on the banks of the Little Bighorn in 1876. This is the story of the lives of these two men.

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