The First Attack on the Custer Legend (Battle of the Little Bighorn)

 George Armstrong Custer’s widow, Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer died on April 4, 1933.  She had defended her husband’s reputation for over fifty years.  Within a year the Custer legend was under attack by revisionist historians.

 In 1934 Frederic F. Van de Water wrote Glory Hunter.: A Life of General Custer.  

Custer’s primary qualities according to Van der Water were blind ambition and hubris.