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The Last Stand

Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Aug 16, 2017johnbacich rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
One of the best books about the last stand. Evan S Connell's Son of the Morning Star may be the best. No one will really know exactly what happened that day because the Indians didn't take prisoners and butchered the wounded, so the only witnesses were the Indians themselves. They were afraid to tell the truth right after the battle and later on may have boasted too much. ( Dozens of Indians claimed they killed Custer, but that no one on that day even knew he'd been there. Forensic evidence turned up after a wildfire there and authors who neither try to lionize Custer nor demonize him like Philbrick and Connell make plausible cases for what did. Had he won that battle, he might have become president.