Conclusions from research of Custer’s Last Sand." Through bullets, spent cartridges, and other material data, Fox identifies combat positions and tracks soldiers and Indians across the battlefield. Guided by the history beneath our feet, and listening to the previously ignored Indian testimonies, Fox reveals scenes of panic and collapse and, ultimately, a story of the Custer battle quite different from the fatalistic versions of history. 428 pp; 6x9;maps; photos; illus; notes; references; index.

Following a grassfire, the "dig" resulted in this detailed analysis of the physical evidence remaining from the June, 1876 battle. 154 pp; 7x10; photos; illus; maps.

The character of the Sioux, personality of Custer, mixed emotions of Custer’s men, and the Plains landscape-all emerge with such clarity that the reader is transported in time to that spring at 1876, when the Army of the Plains began its fateful march toward the Yellowstone. The analysis of Custer’s motives and political ambitions shed new light on an old mystery and its hotly disputed by Custer’s admirers. pp; 5 1/2x8; maps; bibliog; index.

This edition chronicles the rise and near demise of the Arikara nation and the ensuing skirmishes, fights and battles of the Indian Wars that culminate at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Through it all is Bloody Knife, the Indian scout who experienced many of these historical events. Features several previously unpublished and rare photographs of Custer, Indian scouts and their contemporaries. 296 pp; 5 1/2x812; photos; maps; illus; notes; bibliog; index.

This is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of women who accompanied their military husbands across the age, up turbulent rivers, over the badlands of Dakota and into the far reaches of the Western frontier, during the Indian troubles of the mid-1870’s. This story concludes with her feelings upon receipt of the knowledge that her husband and his command were massacred at the Little Big Horn. 296 pp; 5x7 1/2; map; appendix.

Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the U.S. Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized. The men of these regiments were dubbed "buffalo soldiers" by their Indian foes and were very proud of the title. 304 pp; 5 1/4x8; photos; maps; bibliog; index.

No figure to the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination. This probes the mortal an immortal sides of Custer while also characterizing and interpreting the institutional context of both Custer and the frontier army. Succinctly separates the truth from the bull....! 248 pp; 5 /1/2 x 8 1/2; photos; maps; sources; index.

This is THE BEST single volume every published on the Custer Battle and the Sioux War of 1876. It gives a total view of the U.S. Army campaign against the Sioux, including the rounding up of the "winter roamers." 408 pp; 6x9; maps; tables; bibliog; index.

This two volume set is the defense of Custer by Whittaker, when it was first published in 1876. Less than six months after the debacle at the Little Big Horn, a time when Custer was being more pilloried than praised. Volume 1 deals with Custer's early life and West Point, then his singular service as a cavalryman in the Civil War, from the first Battle of Bull Run through Gettysburg and the Virginia campaign. Volume 2 deals with Custer’s fighting in the West, ending with a memorable description of his last stand at the Little Big Horn in June 1876. vol. 1-372 pp; illus; vol. 2-314 pp.

Custer’s court-martial occurred some nine years before the tragic massacre at Little Big Horn. It is recounted here with dramatic skill and scholarly patience. In this, the trial record is allowed to speak for itself and the reader is allowed to form his own conclusion as to Custer’s guilt and punishment merited. 292 pp; maps; photos; bibliog.; index.

Story of inevitable tragedy, more than the story of Crazy Horse and Custer, who are but symbols of the larger drama played out on the Northern Great Plains. 544 pp; photos; illus; maps; notes; bibliog; index.

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Was he a martyr or damned? A hero or a fool? This pictorial biography of Custer explores all the facets of the Legendary general from his boyhood to West Point, through the Civil War and his earliest battles, to his last stand. More pictures of Custer related people, places, and artifacts are assembled here than in any other book or museum collection. 192 pp; maps; photos; paintings; maps; notes bibliog; index.

This is a collection of exciting, intensely absorbing personal accounts of survivors. Most important, this includes interviews with the other side, warriors who fought with Crazy Horse. Camp began interviewing the survivors in the late 1890’s, but died in 1925 before he could compile his notes into written history. Includes a nearly complete compilation of participants on both sides. 320 pp; maps; photos; appendices; index.

These well illustrated pages contain just about everything you’d want to know about the impetuous, courageous, but not overly clever Custer. Hutton does a great job of presenting the man and the myth. 600 pp; maps; photos; illus; bibliog; index.

Through the tangle of charges and counter-charges Monaghan cuts a clear path in his fresh account of Custer’s whole career, beginning with West point. Where possible he relies on original sources and appraises them with the sound logic of a practical historian. He’s sympathetic with Custer, but doesn’t hesitate to show the foibles and failures. 488 pp; maps; photos; notes; sources; index.

This book is about a day and a battle and the people who fought in it. Most of the combatants were American Indians, and the story of the battle from their viewpoint has never before been told. It is a true story, completely factual, and reconstructs the bloodiest twenty-four hours in American frontier history. 288 pp; map; illus; sources.

This story of the expedition and its effect on relations with the Sioux is told from government documents, including much new material from the National Archives, and from newpaper reports and previously unpublished journals. 170 pp; map; photos; appendix; index.

Defeat and death at the Little BigHorn gave Gen. Geo. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. Dippie investigates, the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of Custer’s Last Stand in poems, novels, painting, movies, jokes, and other ephemeria amounts to a unique reflection on the national character. 238 pp; photos; illus; notes; bibliog essay; appendices; index.

Stewart takes particular note of the effect on history of Custer’s ineptness, recklessness and glory-seeking, and of the superstitions and fatalistic determination of the Sioux and Cheyenne. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is reconstructed largely on Indian eyewitness testimony and climaxes the long developing tragedy and vacillating policy of the government towards the Indians in that period of time. Vast coverage of a panorama of events that culminated at the Little Big Horn. 538 pp; maps; photos; bibliog; index.

This explores Mrs. Custer, a very complex woman and her role in creating the Custer myth. Exceptionally good "life and times" of "Libby" Custer frontier girl, Civil war bride, Indian wars wife, and Victorian widow. 444 pp; map; photos; notes; bibliog; index.

Monumental work by the greatly respected and recently deceased author. Throughout this work a number of Custer "truisms" are refuted, logically and historically. 336 pp; photos; tables; appendix; notes; glossary; bibliog; index.