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Son of the Morning Star

Son of the Morning Star

by EvanS.Connell (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $15.08

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    Paperback 1986

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Synopsis

In Son of the Morning Star, Mr. Connell explores deeply the personalities of Custer and the other federal and Indian leaders. Custer, seen by some as a hero, by others as the cause of the defeat, was an enigmatic and extravagant figure, fearless in battle and sentimental in repose. It is said that on first seeing through field glasses the more than four miles of Allied Indian camps, he exclaimed, hurrah, boys, we've got them! Disregarding a Cheyenne warning, Custer rode to his death--and led to death every man of the Seventh Cavalry who followed him. A foolish miscalculation ended the life of the man the Indians called Son of the Morning Star. The story is told that after the battle a squaw drove a sewing awl through his ear and into his skull so that he might hear better in the next world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 01 Oct 1997
ISBN 10: 0865475105
ISBN 13: 9780865475106

Media Reviews
Impressive in its massive presentation of information . . . Son of the Morning Star makes good reading--its prose is elegant, its tone the voice of dry wit, its meandering narrative skillfully crafted. Mr. Connell is above all a storyteller, and the story he tells is vastly more complicated than who did what to whom on June 25, 1876. --Page Stenger, The New York Times Book Review
Son of the Morning Star leaves the reader astonished. -- The Washington Post
A scintillating book, thoroughly researched and brilliantly constructed. -- The Wall Street Journal

Impressive in its massive presentation of information . . . Son of the Morning Star makes good reading--its prose is elegant, its tone the voice of dry wit, its meandering narrative skillfully crafted. Mr. Connell is above all a storyteller, and the story he tells is vastly more complicated than who did what to whom on June 25, 1876. Page Stenger, The New York Times Book Review

Son of the Morning Star leaves the reader astonished. The Washington Post

A scintillating book, thoroughly researched and brilliantly constructed. The Wall Street Journal


Impressive in its massive presentation of information . . . Son of the Morning Star makes good reading--its prose is elegant, its tone the voice of dry wit, its meandering narrative skillfully crafted. Mr. Connell is above all a storyteller, and the story he tells is vastly more complicated than who did what to whom on June 25, 1876. --Page Stenger, The New York Times Book Review

Son of the Morning Star leaves the reader astonished. --The Washington Post

A scintillating book, thoroughly researched and brilliantly constructed. --The Wall Street Journal

Author Bio

Evan S. Connell has received numerous prizes and awards for his writing and is the author of sixteen books of fiction, poetry, essays, and history, including Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge, The Diary of a Rapist, The Alchymist's Journal, and The Collected Stories. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.