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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Contributor(s): Philbrick, Nathaniel (Author)
ISBN: 0143119605     ISBN-13: 9780143119609
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
- History | Military - United States
- History | Native American
Dewey: 973.82
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.97 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Geographic Orientation - Montana
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 138175
Reading Level: 8.9   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 23.0
 
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Publisher Description:
An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history. --Los Angeles Times

Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand. Bringing a wealth of new information to his subject, as well as his characteristic literary flair, Philbrick details the collision between two American icons- George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull-that both parties wished to avoid, and brilliantly explains how the battle that ensued has been shaped and reshaped by national myth.