TWO WORKS ON GENERAL CUSTER DO LITTLE TO FURTHER REVEAL THE MAN.(Lifestyle)(Review) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: June 3, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

George Armstrong Custer is one of those historical figures who are a natural magnet for myth makers, debunkers and ideologues of all political persuasions. He was deified in the 1926 film ``The Flaming Frontier'' as ``the bravest man that ever lived'' and demonized as a genocidal maniac in Arthur Penn's 1970 movie version of ``Little Big Man.'' He has been held up as a romantic symbol of doomed heroics and frontier individualism, and reviled as a glory-seeking idiot, an avatar of r...