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The Last Stand Covers those involved in Custer's Last Stand from the Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and Major Marcus Reno who led the first attack, to Libby Custer waiting with the other army wives at Fort Lincoln. This book provides an account of what happened there - and why - at the end of June 1876. Full description
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Praise for Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History "Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for our age of searching and turmoil."
--The New York Times Book Review "A signal achievement. Philbrick enlightens and even astounds."
--Salon.com Praise for Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize "Brilliantly told...has to be among the best nonfiction books of this or any other year."
--Los Angeles Time Book Review "A breathtaking account of one of history's greatest adventures."
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"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for our age of searching and turmoil."
"The New York Times Book Review"
"A signal achievement. Philbrick enlightens and even astounds."
Salon.com
Praise for "Sea of Glory," winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
"Brilliantly told...has to be among the best nonfiction books of this or any other year."
"Los Angeles Time Book Review"
"A breathtaking account of one of history's greatest adventures."
"Entertainment Weekly""
"An engrossing, thoughtfully researched, and tautly written account of a critical chapter ni American history."
--Los Angeles Times "An evocative and cinematic narrative."
--The New York Times "A carefully historical account that is also a ripping good yarn."
--The Wall Street Journal
Praise for Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History "Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for our age of searching and turmoil."
--The New York Times Book Review "A signal achievement. Philbrick enlightens and even astounds."
--Salon.com Praise for Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize "Brilliantly told...has to be among the best nonfiction books of this or any other year."
--Los Angeles Time Book Review "A breathtaking account of one of history's greatest adventures."
--Entertainment Weekly From the Hardcover edition.
The Sunday Times top ten bestseller. The ultimate mythic story of the American West: the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull's victory and General Custer's famous last stand - featuring remarkable new archival discoveries.
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0670021725
- ISBN 13 9780670021727
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Whether it is cast as a tale of bravery in the face of impossible odds or of arrogance finally receiving its rightful comeuppance, the Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most potent and embattled episodes in American history. Nathaniel Philbrick now directs his immense talents to this story, bringing new evidence to bear as he moves through layers of fact and myth to find the truth about one of the iconic moments in our history: that there were two Last Stands enacted on that bloody battlefield, and it is impossible to know one without the other. A pair of legendary figures loom over the story: George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull. Custer was a Civil War veteran with a reputation for incredible if often reckless courage. Sitting Bull, ten years Custer's senior, had also been a brave warrior but had more recently emerged as the leader of an alliance of Sioux and Cheyenne. The tribes of the northern plains were increasingly outraged at white incursions, while the officer corps of the Seventh Cavalry was beset by jealousy and backbiting. By June 1876, when the 650 soldiers of Custer's regiment approached the Little Bighorn River in central Montana, Sitting Bull's village had grown to more than 8,000. The tribes' leaders were not fixed on war, but if the government should be foolish enough to pursue them, they would stand and fight. Other key characters include the famed Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and Wooden Leg, a young northern Cheyenne whose memoir provides a stirring account of the attack of the Seventh Cavalry. Custer's officers included Major Marcus Reno, who led the battalion that began the assault, and Captain Frederic Benteen, whose bravery under fire saved Reno. Philbrick brings to light a fascinating new source the unpublished writings of Private Peter Thompson, begun just months after the battle. But most of all it is Philbrick's account of the final blood-soaked encounter on Last Stand Hill that brings a new dimension to this age-old story, an unforgettable portrait of bravery, cowardice, chaos, and brutality. The fight over the meaning of the battle began immediately. The story of the Little Bighorn was instantly told and retold, cast and recast, as survivors, witnesses, and other interested parties all came forward, each with a stake in bending the nation in the midst of celebrating the centennial of its birth, the timing of Custer's death on June 25, 1876, could not have been worse. But it was the Sioux and Cheyenne who came to know what it means when an entire people--as opposed to a few hundred soldiers--encounters its own Last Stand. With an instinct for finding both the dark and the honorable threads in American history Philbrick probes the ultimately tragic story of how two talented leaders and their followers embarked on converging voyages across the plains of North America, leading us to the disturbing realization that nothing ended at the Little Bighorn. There is some wear to the book jacket but the book is free of any markings and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 1065
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