Sobre El Autor
Jeff Barnes lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and is an independent historian, former newspaper editor, trustee of the Nebraska State Historical Society, and past chairman of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission. He is the author of The Great Plains Guide to Custer and Forts of the Northern Plains.
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) http://lccn.loc.gov/n2007073572
Obras de Jeff Barnes
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Barnes, Jeffery S.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1958-08-29
- Género
- male
- Aviso de desambiguación
- http://lccn.loc.gov/n2007073572
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Miembros
- 83
- Popularidad
- #218,811
- Valoración
- 2.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 16
In this travel guidebook, author Jeff Barnes is only concerned with Custer’s activity after the Civil War, tracing his routes and billets from 1865 on. Barnes is not a Custer admirer, although fairly even-handed; he doesn’t gloss over Custer’s recurring disobedience to orders or his penchant for shooting or hanging deserters. The guidebook is chronological rather than organized by geographic area; since Custer’s areas of activity ranged from Louisiana to Montana you couldn’t do all the sites in a single tour unless you were willing to spend a lot of time on the road. The research seems exceptional; each chapter and the entire book have extensive bibliographies, often referencing fairly obscure Western military posts and sites. The flip side is that Custer was so busy trooping around the American West, there isn’t a lot of detail on each site mentioned.
I was amused to note that although Custer didn’t spend a lot of time in Colorado, when he was chaperoning Russian Grand Duke Alexei on a buffalo hunt in 1870 the party stayed at a hotel in Denver at the corner of 16th and Blake Street, across the street from the RTD Administration Building where I used to work. It’s now a bank, and the place where I got my mortgage refinanced. I had also assumed that Custer was buried at the Little Big Horn battle site; there’s a marker there showing where his body was found but it was removed and he’s buried at West Point.
Probably essential to the die-hard-with-your-boots-on Custer fan; for me I imagine it will be most useful for reference to the bibliography and for general history/geology/etc. trips in the West.… (más)