{"product_id":"general-custer-libbie-custer-and-their-dogs-9781476669540","title":"General Custer Libbie Custer and Their Dogs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040421151063,"sku":"9781476669540","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476669540.jpg?v=1750946695","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/general-custer-libbie-custer-and-their-dogs-9781476669540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}