Summary: <p>[2013-12-10 13:00:00] General Custer’s defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn was front-page news across America. The journalists who covered the historic battle are often credited with mythologizing Custer, but University of North Texas professor James E. Mueller says that a look back at newspapers of the day disproves that idea. He writes about his findings in <em>Shooting Arrows & Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn</em> (University of Oklahoma Press).</p><p></p>
