General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs: A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn

"The little known history of General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie Custer, as wholehearted dog lovers. At the time of his death at Little Bighorn, they owned a rollicking pack of forty hunting dogs, including Scottish Deerhounds, Russian Wolfhounds, Greyhounds and Foxhounds. Told from a dog owner's perspective"--

Author: Brian Patrick Duggan
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 03/08/2019
Pages: 361
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781476669540
ISBN10: 1476669546
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- Pets | Dogs | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Brian Patrick Duggan is the author of Saluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought It to the West, and numerous articles on canine history which have been published in AKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, Greasy Grass: The Journal of the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association and Research Review: The Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates, among others. He is a retired university technology educator, an active American Kennel Club judge, and the editor for McFarland's Dogs in Our World series.