Author Description

Custer in Photographs is a definitive study that identifies and investigates all of the well-known and many recently discovered photographs of General George Armstong Custer--the youngest Union general ever to fight in the Civil War and the most photographed man of his time. At no time during the history of photography such an undertaking to collect and evaluate the tremendous number of images that were taken of Custer. The book is arranged in chronological order (a detailed chronology of Custer's life appears at the end) and, in most cases, the photographer and the original format of publication are identified. Where the date of the picture is unknown, information such as the length of Custer's hair is used to approximate the date and time that a particular photograph was taken. Almost all of the illustrations reproduced in this book were copied directly from original photographs--rare works valued in excess of one million dollars. Custer in Photographs is a vivid portrait of Custer from the tender age of seventeen throughout his dramatic military career up to 1876--the year of his dramatic death. Among the classic photography books published in the last 140 years, this is a remarkable work that sets a standard of comparison for future books to come and reveals many fascinating and human facts of this larger-than-life general. -- Inside jacket flaps.