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Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
By Mueller, James E.
- ISBN
- 9780806143989
- Publisher
- Univ. of Oklahoma
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Reviewed on November 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
The jolting news of the defeat of the Seventh Cavalry, the death of the Custer brothers, and the victory of the allied Western Plains Indian forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 came to a post-Civil War nation trying to rally behind a national centennial celebration. Mueller (journalism, Univ. of North Texas; Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-Room Antics to Message Control) covers the process of the news reporting on the battle, from army scout Muggins Taylor's initial report to officia...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
