Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393329391)

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.

Author: James Welch
ISBN-10: 0393329399
ISBN-13: 9780393329391
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90d