The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.82/PHILBRICK,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2010
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 466 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670021727 (hc.), 0670021725 (hc.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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