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