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Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight: New Sources of Indian-Military History
Hardorff
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Description for Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight: New Sources of Indian-Military History
Paperback. Sheds light on what happened at the Little Bighorn Editor(s): Hardorff, Richard G. Num Pages: 214 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; HBJK; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer’s Last Stand. Their testimony sheds light on what happened at the Little Bighorn on the bloodiest of Sundays, June 25, 1876. Flying Hawk, Standing Bear, He Dog, Red Feather, Moving Robe Woman, Eagle Elk, White Bull, Hollow Horn Bear, and other Indian survivors of the Custer fight were interviewed during the early decades of the twentieth century by men genuinely interested in the historical truth, including Judge Eli S. Ricker, General Hugh L. Scott, John G. Neihardt, and Walter S. Campbell. The interviews ... Read more
The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer’s Last Stand. Their testimony sheds light on what happened at the Little Bighorn on the bloodiest of Sundays, June 25, 1876. Flying Hawk, Standing Bear, He Dog, Red Feather, Moving Robe Woman, Eagle Elk, White Bull, Hollow Horn Bear, and other Indian survivors of the Custer fight were interviewed during the early decades of the twentieth century by men genuinely interested in the historical truth, including Judge Eli S. Ricker, General Hugh L. Scott, John G. Neihardt, and Walter S. Campbell. The interviews ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803272934
SKU
V9780803272934
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About Hardorff
Richard G. Hardorff is the author of Hokahey! A Good Day to Die! The Indian Casualties of the Custer Fight and Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Battle. Jerome A. Greene is a historian with the National Park Service and author of Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877 (Nebraska 1991).
Reviews for Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight: New Sources of Indian-Military History
“Compelling reading . . . Lakota Recollections is based on the common-sense notion that historians should consult [Lakota and Cheyenne] warriors’ comments about the Battle of the Little Bighorn.”—Old West “[Hardorff’s] editing manages to put these often contradictory accounts into their proper perspectives.”—Little Big Horn Associates Newsletter “The collection [gives] a compelling description of the battle scene [and] coherence to ... Read more