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Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
Georger Armstrong Custer’s death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.
The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels
In 'The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels', the New York Public Library presents a meticulously organized catalog of an often underappreciated literary phenomenon that dominated American popular literature in the late nineteenth century. Comprising various entries that detail the authors, titles, and publication specifics of these economical yet culturally significant tales, the collection offers both a reference guide and a fascinating insight into the reading habits of a past era. The collection asserts itself not just as an archival effort but as a narrative of the rise and influence of dime novels, capturing the literary style of mass-market storytelling and the zeitgeist they reflected a...
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