Synopses & Reviews
Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull. Telling of the pride and desperation of a people systematically stripped of their treaty rights, hounded from their ancestral hunting grounds, and herded into wretched reservations, reveals how this defining moment in American history was no more a "Last Stand" than a final celebration of waning power and freedom.
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"Enlightening . . . crisp and vivid . . . a lively and informative work of popular history." Cleveland Plain Dealer
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"The Great Spirit must have created James Welch so that he could tell of the Little Bighorn from the viewpoint of the tribes that fought there." Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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"For those who many wonder about the 'Custer Had It Coming' bumper stickers they see in the West, James Welch provides the answer, in a book which reads with the same poetic prose that has made his novels American classics." Tony Hillerman
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"A moving and thoughtful meditation on the history of America's wars of conquest and dispossession, and on the necessity--and the difficulty--of recovering that history, and making it a part of living memory for modern-day Indians and whites." Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter Nation
Synopsis
This historic and personal work tells the Native American side of Custer's fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.
Synopsis
This historic and personal work tells the Native American side of Custer's fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.
Synopsis
The classic account of Custer's Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books.
About the Author
At the time of his death in 2003, James Welch was considered one of the most important authors of the American West. His books include Fool's Crow and Winter in the Blood.