The Last Stand : : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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At the flood -- The dream -- Hard ass -- The dance -- The scout -- The blue pencil line -- The approach -- The crow's nest -- Into the valley -- Reno's charge -- To the hill -- Still point -- The forsaken -- Grazing his horses -- The last stand -- The river of nightmares -- Libbie's house.
The bestselling author of "Mayflower" sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West, reminding readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations.
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Disappointing submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 15, 2011, 4:10pm A difficuilt read, too long, pedantic, with exhaustive background information about the history of relations with native-Americans and no new insights about the engagement, itself.
PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xxii, 466 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0670021725
9780670021727
SUBJECTS
Custer, George A. -- 1839-1876.
Sitting Bull, -- 1831-1890.
Dakota People -- Wars, 1876.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.