The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Philbrick, Nathaniel
The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Nathaniel Philbrick - New York : Viking , 2010. - xxii, 466 p., 40 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-446) and index.
At the flood -- The dream -- Hard ass -- The dance -- The scout -- The blue pencil line -- The approach -- The crow's nest -- Into the valley -- The charge -- To the hill -- Still point -- The forsaken -- Grazing his horses -- The last stand -- The river of nightmares.
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.
9780670021727
2009047209
Custer, George Armstrong , 1830-1876
Sitting Bull , 1831-1890
Little Bighorn, Battle of, Mont.----1876
Dakota Indians----Wars, 1876
E83.876 / .P47 2010
973.8 PHI
The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Nathaniel Philbrick - New York : Viking , 2010. - xxii, 466 p., 40 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-446) and index.
At the flood -- The dream -- Hard ass -- The dance -- The scout -- The blue pencil line -- The approach -- The crow's nest -- Into the valley -- The charge -- To the hill -- Still point -- The forsaken -- Grazing his horses -- The last stand -- The river of nightmares.
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.
9780670021727
2009047209
Custer, George Armstrong , 1830-1876
Sitting Bull , 1831-1890
Little Bighorn, Battle of, Mont.----1876
Dakota Indians----Wars, 1876
E83.876 / .P47 2010
973.8 PHI