Showdown At Little Big Horn - Softcover
On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle.
Acclaimed historian Dee Brown traces the events of that day and of the weeks before, through the eyes and ears of seventeen participants from both sides, including Natives, scouts, soldiers, and civilians.
Why did Custer divide his forces? Why did he not take his regiment’s Gatling guns? Why did he expect Sitting Bull to surrender without a fight? How did Sitting Bull’s vision at the sun dance on the Rosebud foretell the occasion and the outcome of the battle? How did war chiefs Crazy Horse and Gall take advantage of Custer’s tactical errors? And why did they preserve Custer’s body from mutilation?
Showdown at Little Big Horn answers these and other questions, telling the story of the fight from many points of view, based on reports, diaries, letters, and testimony of the participants themselves. Together the accounts provide a gripping narrative of a punitive expedition gone badly awry and an assemblage of Native peoples who forestalled for a while the army’s domination of the northern plains.
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About the Author:
Dee Brown (1908–2002) was the author of thirty books of nonfiction and fiction about the American West, including the international bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. His books The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West, The Galvanized Yankees, and The Fetterman Massacre, are all available in Bison Books editions.
Review:
"A very powerful story that draws one in much the same way as a good novel: by evoking the sights, the smells, the noise, and the desperation of the battle. This is essential history for the Custer buff, or anyone interested in the Indian Wars on the Plains."—Roundup Magazine (Roundup Magazine)
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- PublisherPenguin Putnam~mass
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 042502122X
- ISBN 13 9780425021224
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