Research Catalog

Title

Custer on canvas : representing Indians, memory, and violence in the new west / Norman K. Denzin.

Author

Denzin, Norman K.

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, Inc., c2011.

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Details

Description

279 p., [16] p. of plates : coll. ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Custer, George, 1776-1833 > Portraits
• Custer, George, 1776-1833 > Drama
• Custer, George, 1776-1833 > Anniversaries, etc
• Custer, George, 1776-1833 > Anniversaries
• 1876
• Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Pictorial works
• Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, in art
• Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Drama
• Indians in art
• Indians in popular culture > Little Bighorn Battlefield > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works
• Portraits
• Drama
• Pictorial works.
• Portraits.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dramatis personae -- Chapter One: A good day to die: the Battle of Many Names -- Chapter Two: Whose last stand? The early paintings -- Chapter Three: Whose Custer? -- Chapter Four: Killing Custer -- Section of color plates -- Chapter Five: Here Fell Custer: an autoethnography of a painting -- Chapter Six: Custer's Last Rally -- Chapter Seven: The Last Stand -- Appendix A: Timeline: The Plains Indian wars (1860-1890) and the Battle of Many Names (1876) -- Appendix B: Timeline: Paintings of the Battle of Many Names -- Appendix C: Timeline: William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

ISBN

• 9781598745986 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1598745980 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781598745993 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1598745999 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011009011

OCLC

• 687676929
• SCSB-10995517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library