In addition to the Frank Gruber bibliography from "The Pulp
Jungle," I think he must have written a non-fiction work
about Custer's Last Stand. When I was still a teenage Gruber
fan, I read in the paper that he was going to appear on "The
Joe Pyne Show" on a local UHF channel, plugging his new book
on Custer. Wiggling the antenna on the old Philco, I brought
in the show. Gruber came out, looking like a deer caught in
headlights. Pyne, whose big thing was controversy, led him
into a discussion of the Battle of the Little Big Horn,
harping on the fact that Custer and his men were defeated
only because they'd been so vastly outnumbered. Gruber let
himself get gulled into calling the Indians stupid and
worthless as fighters and a lot of other uncomplimentary
things. Then Pyne announced that he had other guests - two
very militant looking young men who were descendents of Chief
Sitting Bull.
Dick Lochte
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