More a study of cultures in collision than an attempt to set records straight or expose new findings about George A. Custer, Larry McMurtry’s Custer presents a “short life” of the frontier legend. As the author tells us, “Several times, over the years, I have been asked to write a life of Custer, and have declined mainly because I found Evan Connell’s Son of the Morning Star a masterpiece that is unlikely to be bettered.” But at length he proceeded, because the “short life itsel
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