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Series
Language
English
Description
Account of the battle in which General Custer lost his life with emphasis on the background of the tragedy and analysis of Custer's motives and political ambitions. A portion of this book has appeared in American Heritage under the title, "The Grisly Epilogue."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations survey the Battle of the Little Bighorn, explaining its causes, describing Custer's battle plan, relating its outcomes for Custer's soldiers and for the Sioux Native Americans, and providing a glossary, lists of important dates and people, and selected further resources.
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Series
Lakota Westerns volume 2
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III's acclaimed Lakota Westerns series, The Long Knives Are Crying begins ten years later, in 1875, as Sitting Bull begins gathering thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion. What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass battle) and the remarkable defeat of General George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry, including the days and weeks leading up...
16) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars.""--From book jacket.
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Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A brief history of the Battle of Little Bighorn, the deadly clash between U.S. soldiers and Native American forces in 1876.
Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn may be the best recognized violent conflict between the indigenous peoples of North America and the government of the United States. Incorporating the voices of Native Americans, soldiers, scouts, and women, Tim Lehman's concise, compelling narrative will forever...
20) Canaan: a novel
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, and red, ex-Union and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we wirtness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud's banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn.