Presented in this lot is the First Edition of "Crazy Horse and Custer", by Stephen E. Ambrose, Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, New York, illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey. "Crazy Horse and Custer The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors" is a masterful dual biography that tells the epic story of the lives of these two men: both were fighters of legendary daring, both became honoured leaders in their societies when still astonishingly young, and both died when close to the supreme political heights. Yet they - like the nations they represented - were as different as day and night. Custer had won his spurs in the American Civil War; his watchword was 'To promotion - or death!' and his restless ambition characterized a white nation in search of expansion and progress. Crazy Horse fought for a nomadic way of life fast yielding before the buffalo-hunters and the incursions of the white man. The Great Plains of North America provided the stage - and the prize. to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie. Stephen Edward Ambrose (1936-2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. This hardcover book is in very nice condition, intact pages are clean, tight spine. Original paper dust jacket exhibits slight tears and creases. Measures 5.75"W x 8.5"L x 1.5"D, weight 1lb, 6oz.