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Article: Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Just when readers thought the literature of Custeriana had run its long and checkered course, now comes a most welcome addition from Shirley Leckie, a history professor from Florida. She gives yet another view of George Armstrong Custer's life, as see, and shaped by his wife, Libby. it is the most comprehensive investigation of this professional widow" whose entire life was a studied eulogy to her famous, albeit controversial, husband.
Leckie has researched the numerous notes, letters, diaries, articles, and books written by Libby Custer to present the picture of a love-driven Victorian woman whose sole purpose after his death was to defend her husband's fame and ...