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The Last Stand (2010) (edit title/settings)

Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author) (edit contributors)

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The bestselling author of Mayflower sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has... read more

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The story of the Little Big Horn and the events that led up to the destruction of Custer's unit. This book not only looks at Custer and the men that served in his command, it also draws on first and second hand information from the Native Americans that were there or relatives of these... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The story of the Little Big Horn and the events that led up to the destruction of Custer's unit. This book not only looks at Custer and the men that served in his command, it also draws on first and second hand information from the Native Americans that were there or relatives of these fighters. It also explores his relationship with his wife and it briefly touches on the relationship he had with a Native American female that had been captured in one of his earlier fights. I felt that is was a well rounded look at the America during this period of change in the vanishing wilderness.

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  • “During a lull in the fighting, Sitting Bull shouted out an exasperated question to the soldiers' Indian scouts on the other side of an echoing gorge. "The Indians here have no fight with the whites," he said. "Why is it the whites come to fight with the Indians?" Twelve years later, Sitting Bull was still waiting for an answer.”
    Sitting Bull
  • “Sitting Bull, One Bull claimed, insisted that the Hunkpapa stay away from the dead on Last Stand Hill. One Bull also said his uncle predicted that for failure to comply with the wished of the Great Spirit Wakan Tanka, the Lakota would forever "covet white people's belongings" and ultimately "starve at <the> white man's door."”
  • “Despite his inconsistencies and flaws, there was something about Custer that distinguished him from most other human beings. He possessed an energy, an ambition, and a charisma that few others could match. He could inspire devotion and great love along with more than his share of hatred and disdain, and more than anything else, he wanted to be remembered. Some are remembered because they transcended the failings of their age. Custer is remembered because he so perfectly embodied those failings. As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease,"”

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High up in his floating tower, Captain Grant Marsh guided the riverboat Far West toward Fort Lincoln, the home of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. Army's Seventh Cavalry.

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List of maps
Preface: Custer's smile

1. At the flood
2. The dream
3. Hard ass
4. The dance
5. The scout
6. The blue pencil line
7. The approach
8. The crow's nest
9. Into the valley
10. Reno's charge
11. To the hill
12. Still point
13. The forsaken
14. Grazing his horses
15. The last stand
16. The river of nightmares
Epilogue: Libbie's house
Appendix A: The Seventh Cavalry on the afternoon of June 25, 1876
Appendix B: Sitting Bull's Village on June 25, 1876
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Index

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780670021727
Page Count: 466

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  • Library of Congress: E83.876 P47 2010
  • Dewey: 973.8'2

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