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Killing Custer
James Welch
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Description for Killing Custer
Paperback. The classic account of Custer's Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JFSL9; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393329391
SKU
V9780393329391
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About James Welch
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.
Reviews for Killing Custer
"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
Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee