| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii, 336 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-20146-7.)

George Armstrong Custer and his singular moment on the stage of history have retained an iconic status afforded few other individuals or events in American history. Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock annually to the Montana battlefield that once officially bore his name, but was rechristened Little Bighorn National Monument in 1991 by a government embarrassed by what it had once ordered its best frontier officer to accomplish. The tardy federal construction of an Indian memorial on the battlefield in 2003 further distanced the government from the flamboyant soldier whose death led to the initial memorialization of the site. While the government, through the National Park Service, has tarnished Custer's once glowing reputation the popular fascination with the man remains. How and why that has happened is the subject of Michael A. Elliott's captivating Custerology.

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