Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Stephen E. Ambrose

Doubleday, 1975 - Biography & Autobiography - 486 pages

This exciting dual biography tells the epic story of the lives of these two men: parallel lives that paved the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations -- one red, one white -- fighting for possession of the open prairie.

Contents

• The Setting and the People The Great Plains: 5
• The Setting and the People Ohio: 21
• Curly: 35

About the author

Historian Stephen E. Ambrose grew up in Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Louisiana. Ambrose is considered to be one of the foremost historical scholars of recent times and has been a professor for over three decades. He is also the founder and president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. His works include D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest and Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. Abrose served historical consultant on the motion picture Saving Private Ryan.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
• Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1975
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 17, 2007
• ISBN: 0385096666, 9780385096669
• Length: 486 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Military; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)