General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs

Brian Patrick Duggan is a canine historian and author of several books and numerous articles about dogs in history. He is a retired university technology educator and an American Kennel Club judge.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword by Paul L. Hedren

Preface

A Note to the Reader

Prologue

1: Judge Bacon’s Daughter

• Tail Piece: The ­Havelock-Hollywood-Custer Connection

2: That Custer Boy

• Tail Piece: A Cadet and His Dog

3: Armstrong Ascendant

• Tail Piece: P.T. Barnum’s Civil War Dog Show

4: My Husband’s Dogs

• Tail Pieces: The Sporting Ritual of Foxhunting in America

• Slave Tracking and Prison Guard Dogs

5: The Texas Pack

• Tail Pieces: Libbie Custer and Persian Greyhounds—Two Degrees of Separation

• Dogs as Property in the 19th Century

6: Kansas—Hunting Game and Chasing Indians

• Tail Pieces: Scotch Stag Hounds and Chinese Edible Dogs—Victorian Breed Terminology

• Army Dogs: Birth, Sutures and Death

7: Kansas and Indian Territory: Bloody Snow

• Tail Piece: Did Armstrong Kill His Own Dogs at Washita?

8: The Tourist Hunters

• Tail Piece: Plagiarizing Lord Byron

• Barnum and the Grand Hoboken Buffalo Hunt

 9: Blue Grass, Pvt. Burkman, and the Grand Duke Alexis

• Tail Piece: Russian Wolfhounds Emigrate to America

10: Paw Prints on the Yellowstone

• Tail Piece: Sir St. George Gore’s Greyhounds Populate the West

• Sighthounds vs. Antelope

11: Fort Lincoln and the Black Hills

• Tail Piece: California Joe and His Custer Hound

• Tailless Dogs

12: The Last Dog Deals and the March to Little Bighorn

• Tail Piece: Custer’s First Stand

13: Dog Rumors and the Last Stand Hoax

• Tail Piece: Rusty’s Improbable History

14: The Widow Custer’s Burden

Epilogue: Custer’s Last Hound

Appendix: General Custer’s Dogs in Art, Literature and Film

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index