Description
First edition of Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn by Evan S. Connell.
Octavo, 441pp. Tan hardcover, tan cloth spine. No additional printings noted. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Internally fine. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, $20.00 on front flap, touch of wear to back panel, bright illustrations.
Son of the Morning Star explores the events leading up to and following the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. The book delves into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, his troops, and the Native American tribes they faced, such as the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne. The book was later adapted into a television miniseries in 1991.
