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Winter, 2003
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Book Review


Custer and His Times: Book Four. Edited by John P. Hart. (LaGrange Park, IL: Little Big Horn Associates, 2002. xxiii + 344 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes.)
      Like many compilations of essays, this fourth volume in the Custer Series from Little Big Horn Associates has a few predictable essays parsing their hero's military maneuvers at various engagements in the West, but it also contains some sparkling new assessments of Custer, his times, and his legacy. Taken in its entirety, the book is a nicely balanced, readable overview of the many facets of the Custer story. 1
      One particularly intriguing essay is the fascinating reassessment of the relationship between Custer and his wife, Libbie. Shirley Leckie concludes that the romance was hardly a "fairly tale love story" (p. 139). Through examinations of diaries and letters, she concludes that Libbie "was strong enough ... to endure her husband's bouts with adolescent behavior and weather the emotional storms of their relationship ..." (p. 160). . . .
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