books

[Cutter]

Geeeez Joe, you'd have to pony up with more cash then that. If you did, I'd let you keep it at sometime in the future. ;D

[franco777]

I have three very good books relating to the battle at the Little Big Horn over the last 2 weeks. They were Lakota Noon ; Custer's Last Campaign and I Fought With Custer-The Story of Sergeant Windlof, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. All three are outstanding books and would highly recommend them.

Three outstanding works that the reading of is highly commended

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For the relative novice to this battle, I fought Custer is very interesting, informative and a fairly quick read.
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For those interested in what the Indians say happened at the battle (which is not given nearly enough credit in my opinion) then I wouold highlyrecommend reading the Indiian accounts in Lakota Noon are very enlightening and the way the author (Gregory F.Michno) ties it all together is extremely thorough. If you haven't read a lot of the Indian accounts, this is a good place to start.
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I am in complete agreement with you and feel that the disparaging way many students treat Indian testimony is the principle stumbling block that prevents a true fundamental understanding of the events as they truly transpired.

The 2nd half of the book Custer's Last Campaign, does an exhaustive and extremely thorough minute by minute account of all of the troops movements during the battle and if you are interested in that much detail (which I am), it is well worth reading.
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Once again, agreed

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[franco777]

My last Post was transmitted prior to my actually completing it. Sorry about that. In re-reading it I see that it says most of what I wanted to say anyway. It just ended in mid-sentence.
I think it is best to write a post in a Word document and then cut and paste it into the message area so as to not have things like that happen.

[tbw]

You can go back and "Edit" your post. You can easily find it, if you don't remember by going to the bottom of the main page and under Forum Statistics click where it says, "View the 25 most recent posts of this forum. It will list all 25 of the last post made here. The one you'd like to edit should be one of them. In the upper right corner under the "reply" button it will list 3 choices,

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[joewiggs]

I would like to take the opportunity to recommend "Indian Views of The Custer Fight by Richard Hardorff. This goes out,especially, to Cutter. There is an indepth section regarding Yellow Nose and the killing of Tom.

[stumblingbear]

I would like to recommend "touched by Fire" by Louise Barnett. it is a wonderful work that not only informs us of the battle but, also, goes into depth regarding the relationship between the General and Libby. I particularly recommend this book to Cinnamon.

[Cutter]

Picture of the 1872 reunion in Monroe of the veterans of the war of 1812.

Here is a downloadable discription starting on PDF page 167. Interesting stuff..
books.google.com/books?id=tTST7UFzncoC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=P.H.+Sheridan++Lieut.+General+little+big+horn+dead&source=bl&ots=cbSRIrBXJH&sig=1ewF3yERD9oUHeKBqU3HFVfVZkM&hl=en&ei=w8GVTsv4AoSEtgfA87GCBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

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[crazycanuck]

Who is the guy in the middle back row in the light suit ,bow tie and moustache ? These guys would be fun to party with,good story tellers I bet !
The War of 1812 was a little neat war where every thing turned out swell for Britain,USA and Canada but not the Indians South and West of the Great Lakes. Hey everyone belt out Johnny Horton's 1959 classic The Battle of New Orleans, come on ,you know you want too.

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson
down the mighty Mississip

Everyone came out smiling after this war save the Indians South and West of the Great Lakes as Wounded Knee(1890) among other things awaited them.The British defeated Napoleon in 1815, Upper & Lower Canada,New Brunswick and Nove Scotia became the Canucklehead Nation of Canada in 1867 and the USA retained it's independence and emerged as a nation of force as seen in the Battle of New Orleans where you really gave the British "well"

[stumblingbear]

Cutter you are absolutely magnificent. You have brought so many interesting tid bits to the forum. Thank you!

[Cutter]

One on Michno I hadn't seen.
www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Book%20Review%2003%20-%20Mystery%20E%20Troop.htm

[whitebull]

Ain't it something that he wrote a book of 360 pages about where the remains of about 28 soldiers were thought to be.
One of the first thinks I read when I first began to read about the battle was a description of Deep Ravine. The ravine walls were described as almost "perpendicular". No way Cementary Ravine can be described that way!

No bodies were found in Deep Ravine because it was a "washout" and the bodies were probably buried much deeper at the head of the Ravine during heavy rains, year after year until now. Makes sense to me.

[Cutter]

Very interesting book.

www.archive.org/details/horsesfriendonly00pratrich

[Cutter]

www.archive.org/details/withcusterscaval005550mbp

Ran across this, looked pretty good.

[Cutter]

I didn't realise it was somewhat common practice for field commanders in the frontier to bring along newspaper correspondents, ie Kellogg. Crook had a reporter named Finerty with him. His book "War-Path and Bivouac" can be downloaded here--

books.google.com/books/about/War_path_and_bivouac.html?id=zBsTAAAAYAAJ


Haven't read it, looks like a page turner though.

[joewiggs]

Cutter I agree with you, it sure looks like a barn burner. I'll let you know after I read it!