An Obituary for Major Reno
by Richard S. Wheeler
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Working to fulfill a deathbed request to restore the honor of a disgraced Little Big Horn officer held responsible for Custer's death, a newspaper reporter learns about how the major saved most of the troopers under his command.Tags
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A Novel about the second in command at the Little Bighorn fight. It seems somewhat confused, and an attempt to define a man that made mistakes, but tried to get along with the military that lionized Custer. They tried to pin on him the blame, and he was acquitted, and he got a handle on his alcoholism, later. I'd say this was accurate, even if a fiction.
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Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa. Wheeler spent three years in Hollywood in the mid-50s, where he worked in a record store and took acting lessons while struggling as a screenwriter. He eventually returned home, and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He spent over a decade as a show more newspaperman, working as an editorial writer for the Phoenix Gazette, editorial page editor for the Oakland, California, Tribune, reporter on the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, and reporter and assistant city editor for the Billings, Montana, Gazette. In 1972, he turned to book editing, working in all for four publishers through 1987. As an editor for Walker & Company he edited twelve Western novels a year. Sandwiched between editing stints, in the mid-70s he worked at the Rancho de la Osa dude ranch in Sasabe, Arizona, on the Mexican border. There, in the off season, he experimented with his own fiction and wrote his first novel, Bushwack, published by Doubleday in 1978. Five more Western novels followed Bushwack before Wheeler was able to turn to writing full time: Beneath the Blue Mountain (1979), Winter Grass (1983), Sam Hook (1986), Richard Lamb (1987) and Dodging Red Cloud (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- An Obituary for Major Reno
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Marcus Reno; George Armstrong Custer
- Important places
- Little Bighorn, Montana, USA; Montana, USA
- Important events
- Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876-06)
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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