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Killing Custer

The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

James Welch author Paul Stekler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:20th Mar '07

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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, Killing Custer reveals how this defining moment in American history was no more a "Last Stand" than a final celebration of waning power and freedom.

"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

  • Winner of Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award 2002

ISBN: 9780393329391

Dimensions: 208mm x 140mm x 20mm

Weight: 284g

320 pages