Where Custer Fell.
Where Custer Fell
James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, Sandy Barnard
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Custer and the men of the
Seventh U.S. Calvary have long ago entered western legend with their
hard fought demise at the Battle of Little Bighorn Little Bighorn, river, c.90 mi (145 km) long, rising in the Bighorn Mts., N Wyo., and flowing north to join the Bighorn River in S Mont. On June 25–26, 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated the forces of Col. George Custer in the Little Bighorn valley. against overwhelming
Native American forces in 1876. Interest in Custer and his 'last
stand' have been the subject of countless books, articles, and
films. Now the team of James S. Brust (a specialist in historical
photographs and prints), Brian C. Pohanka (an accomplished military
historian), and Sandy Barnard (an independent scholar An independent scholar is anyone who works outside traditional academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge. The status of independent scholar is often an amateur rather than a professional although this is not always a matter of choice. specializing in
the Indian wars Indian wars, in American history, general term referring to the series of conflicts between Europeans and their descendants and the indigenous peoples of North America. ) have collaborated to produce "Where Custer Fell:
Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now". An
informed and informative text is accompanied by 217 black and white
historic photographs and illustrations, plus fifteen maps associated
with the battle and the landscape. The product of years of painstaking
research, meticulous scholarship, countless trips to the battlefield
site, and drawing upon both common and uncommon source material,
"Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield
Then And Now" is essential reading for anyone studying the 19th
century Indian wars in general, and the life and times of Custer in
particular.
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