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Books like Custer

Looking for read-alikes for Custer by Larry McMurtry? These 24 titles overlap in West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th Century, and State & Local and overall literary texture.

Top related books to Custer

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Custer: Lessons in Leadership

Duane Schultz

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

The Immortal Irishman The Irish Revolutionary who Became an American Hero

Timothy Egan

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West

Jerry Enzler

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

Dreams of El Dorado A History of the American West

H. W. Brands

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

Black Valor Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870–1898

Frank N. Schubert

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

The Earth is All that Lasts Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

Mark Lee Gardner

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

Too Useful to Sacrifice Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam

Steven R. Stotelmyer

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century • State & Local

The Bohemians Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature

Ben Tarnoff

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry

Joan Nabseth Stevenson

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#10

Voices of the Buffalo Soldier Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West

Frank N. Schubert

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#11

Team America Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged — Robert L. O’Connell

Robert L. O'Connell

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#12

Daniel Smith Donelson Soldier, Politician, Tennessean

Doug Spence

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century • State & Local

#13

Red Dead’s History A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past

Tore C. Olsson

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century

#14

The Battle of the Greasy Grass Custer’s Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture

Debra Buchholtz

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#15

Kit Carson The Life of an American Border Man

David Remley

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#16

Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact

Lochlainn Seabrook

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century • State & Local

#17

Son of the Morning Star General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn

Evan S. Connell

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#18

In Custer’s Shadow Major Marcus Reno

Ronald Hamilton Nichols

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#19

Son of the Morning Star Custer and The Little Bighorn

Evan S. Connell

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#20

Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War

Nicholas Lemann

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century • State & Local

#21

A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn James DeWolf’s Diary and Letters, 1876

James M. DeWolf

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

#22

A Fine Opportunity Lost Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign, November 1863 – April 1864

Ed Lowe

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century • State & Local

#23

Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston

Mark H. Dunkelman

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • 19th Century • State & Local

#24

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella Lucy Bird

Themes: West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • 19th Century • State & Local

Fans of Custer by Larry McMurtry will find 24 titles here, all united by West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th Century. Authors represented include Duane Schultz, Timothy Egan, Jerry Enzler, H. W. Brands, and others.