Featured in this lot is this First Edition of "Custer, The Life of General George Armstrong Custer" by Jay Managhan, 1959, Little Brown and Company publishers. The Custer literature is voluminous and most of it is highly controversial. Through the tangle of charges and countercharges Jay Monaghan cuts a clear path in his fresh account of Custer's whole career. Where possible, Monaghan relies on original sources, and he appraises them with the sound judgment of the practiced historian he is. He is sympathetic with Custer but does not hesitate to show the man's foibles and failures. He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. James Jay Monaghan IV (1891-1980) was known throughout his life as Jay Monaghan, the name under which he published his many works on western United States history, Abraham Lincoln and related subjects on which he was a recognized authority. He actively engaged in a life of adventure centered in the American west that he would later chronicle. During his summer breaks in 1908 and 1909, he traveled across the country, spending some of his time working on cattle roundups in Wyoming. The condition of this book is preserved with some slight fading to the cloth wrapped cover along the spine and shows some browning to the pages. The measurements of this book is 8 1/2" x 5 7/8". The collective weight of this book is 1lb 6oz.