{"product_id":"general-custer-libbie-custer-and-their-dogs-a-passion-for-hounds-from-the-civil-war-to-little-bighorn-9781476669540","title":"General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs: A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Patrick Duggan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 19th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46458122666135,"sku":"9781476669540","price":4136.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781476669540.webp?v=1769184285","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/general-custer-libbie-custer-and-their-dogs-a-passion-for-hounds-from-the-civil-war-to-little-bighorn-9781476669540","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}