General Custer Libbie Custer and Their Dogs

<p> General George Armstrong Custer and his wife Libbie Custer were wholehearted dog lovers. At the time of his death at Little Bighorn they owned a rollicking pack of 40 hunting dogs including Scottish Deerhounds Russian Wolfhounds Greyhounds and Foxhounds. Told from a dog owner's perspective this biography covers their first dogs during the Civil War and in Texas; hunting on the Kansas and Dakota frontiers; entertaining tourist buffalo hunters including a Russian Archduke English aristocrats and P. T. Barnum (all of whom presented the general with hounds); Custer's attack on the Washita village (when he was accused of strangling his own dogs); and the 7th Cavalry's march to Little Bighorn with an analysis of rumors about a Last Stand dog. The Custers' pack was re-homed after his death in the first national dog rescue effort. Well illustrated the book includes an appendix giving depictions of the Custers' dogs in art literature and film.</p>