Brian Patrick Duggan is the author of numerous articles on canine history which have been published in AKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, Sighthound Review, Show Sight, The Private Journey, and Greasy Grass: The Journal of the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association. He is a retired university technology educator and an active American Kennel Club judge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Paul L. Hedren

Preface

A Note to the Reader

Prologue

1: Judge Bacon's Daughter

¿¿Tail Piece: The ­Havelock-Hollywood-Custer Connection

2: That Custer Boy

¿¿Tail Piece: A Cadet and His Dog

3: Armstrong Ascendant

¿¿Tail Piece: P.T. Barnum's Civil War Dog Show

4: My Husband's Dogs

¿¿Tail Pieces: The Sporting Ritual of Foxhunting in America

¿¿Slave Tracking and Prison Guard Dogs

5: The Texas Pack

¿¿Tail Pieces: Libbie Custer and Persian Greyhounds-Two Degrees of Separation

¿¿Dogs as Property in the 19th Century

6: Kansas-Hunting Game and Chasing Indians

¿¿Tail Pieces: Scotch Stag Hounds and Chinese Edible Dogs-Victorian Breed Terminology

¿¿Army Dogs: Birth, Sutures and Death

7: Kansas and Indian Territory: Bloody Snow

¿¿Tail Piece: Did Armstrong Kill His Own Dogs at Washita?

8: The Tourist Hunters

¿¿Tail Piece: Plagiarizing Lord Byron

¿¿Barnum and the Grand Hoboken Buffalo Hunt

¿9: Blue Grass, Pvt. Burkman, and the Grand Duke Alexis

¿¿Tail Piece: Russian Wolfhounds Emigrate to America

10: Paw Prints on the Yellowstone

¿¿Tail Piece: Sir St. George Gore's Greyhounds Populate the West

¿¿Sighthounds vs. Antelope

11: Fort Lincoln and the Black Hills

¿¿Tail Piece: California Joe and His Custer Hound

¿¿Tailless Dogs

12: The Last Dog Deals and the March to Little Bighorn

¿¿Tail Piece: Custer's First Stand

13: Dog Rumors and the Last Stand Hoax

¿¿Tail Piece: Rusty's Improbable History

14: The Widow Custer's Burden

Epilogue: Custer's Last Hound

Appendix: General Custer's Dogs in Art, Literature and Film

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index