| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Custer and Me: A Historian's Memoir*. By Robert M. Utley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xii + 253 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $37.95.)
In this delightful memoir, Robert Utley relates that in 1942, mesmerized by the swashbuckling antics of Errol Flynn as General Custer in They Died with Their Boots On, (Raoul Walsh, 1941) he found his "obsession." Four years later, Utley's lifelong passion was firmly fixated when he took a bus trip to the Custer Battlefield National Monument.	1
With his bachelor's degree from Purdue University, Utley entered the master's program of Indiana University in l951. He received his master's degree just in time to be drafted for the Korean War. Again fortune smiled on Utley when he landed in the historical section of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The critical review of his first manu-script by his three office colleagues proved to be a "... devastating experience ... the most valuable single lesson in my professional growth" (pp. 55–6).	. . .

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