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Book Review


Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.)
      Honest book reviewers usually make their personal disclosures late, well after exhibiting their astute observations, eminent fairness, and essential command of the subjects before them before ultimately introducing the seeds of doubt to their readers. For Michael A. Elliott's Custerology, a public history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and its continued commemoration, this reviewer feels obliged to reverse that order. This provocative book forces one—reader or reviewer—to almost immediately decide where one stands on the Last Stand. . . .
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