| Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story Contributor(s): Miller, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452010950 ISBN-13: 9780452010956 Publisher: Plume Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1992 Annotation: In 1935, David Miller began to gather the stories of 72 elderly Native American participants in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This work is the result of his exhaustive, 22-year research--a superb oral history told from the perspective of the the warriors who won the battle, but lost the war. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 973.82 |
| LCCN: 93187557 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn--told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer's Last Stand. The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American boy by U.S. cavalry troopers. Before it ended, all of those troopers and their commander, George Armstrong Custer, lay dead on the battlefield of the Little Big Horn--the worst defeat ever inflicted by Native Americans on the U.S. military. Now, the full story of that dramatic day, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath are told by the only ones who survived to recount it--the Native Americans. Based on the author's twenty-two years of research, and on the oral testimony of seventy-two Native American eyewitnesses, Custer's Fall is both a superbly skillful weaving of many voices into a gripping narrative fabric, and a revelatory reconstruction that stands as the definitive version of the battle that became a legend and only now emerges as it really was. |