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Crazy Horse and Custer
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Crazy Horse and Custer (1975) (edit title/settings)

The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

by Stephen E. Ambrose (Author) (edit contributors)

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A dual portrait of the leader of the Oglala Sioux and the general of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in 1876 cites the battle of June 25 and chronicles the sometimes striking similarities in the lives of both men. Reprint. LJ.

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The Great Plains of North America, on a cloudless day, stretch out forever under an infinity of bright blue sky.

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INTRODUCTION

PART ONE
CHAPTER 1: The Setting and the People: The Great Plains
CHAPTER 2: The Setting and the People: Ohio
CHAPTER 3: "Curly"
CHAPTER 4: Curly's Vision
CHAPTER 5: Autie
CHAPTER 6: Custer at West Point
CHAPTER 7: Custer and Crazy Horse on the Eve of Manhood

PART TWO
CHAPTER 8: War and Love Among the Oglalas
CHAPTER 9: Guerilla Warfare, Indian Style
CHAPTER 10: War and Love Among the Americans
CHAPTER 11: The Boy General and the Glorious War
CHAPTER 12: Crazy Horse and Custer as Young Warriors

PART THREE
CHAPTER 13: Crazy Horse and the Fort Kearny Battle
CHAPTER 14: Custer Comes to the Plains
CHAPTER 15: A summer on the Plains: 1867
CHAPTER 16: The Treaty of 1868 and the Battle of the Washita
CHAPTER 17: Truce on the High Plains, 1869-73

PART FOUR
CHAPTER 18: Crazy Horse and Custer on the Yellowstone, 1873
CHAPTER 19: The Panic of 1873 and the Black Hills Expedition of 1874
CHAPTER 20: Politics: Red and White
CHAPTER 21: Crazy Horse Fights on the Rosebud while Custer Closes In
CHAPTER 22: The Battle of the Little Bighorn
CHAPTER 23: The Death of Crazy Horse
CHAPTER 24: What Happened to the Others

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  1. Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
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Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 0385096666
Page Count: 486

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