(CUSTER GEORGE A) BRININSTOOL E A Two Typed Letters Signed

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(CUSTER, GEORGE A.) BRININSTOOL, E. A. Two Typed Letters Signed, the first to Harold Watt, regarding Frederic F. Van de Water's book about Custer titled Glory-Hunter; the second a lengthy letter to Paul F. Hoag on the Battle of Little Big Horn and defending Reno. Various lengths, single 4to sheets; folds. Los Angeles, 14 March 1935; 2 December 1952

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14 March 1935: ". . . Glory-Hunter is great stuff -- the best ever printed about the boy general -- and the title is the greatest give-away of all -- the whole meat in a nutshell! . . . "
2 December 1952: ". . .There was no massacre about it. It was a straight up and down fight in which Custer was licked to a fare-ye-well (deservedly so) . . . Major Reno was made 'the goat' by the Custer faction. No better officer lived than Reno . . ."