Pre-Owned The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn (Hardcover) 9780670021727

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I guess like most Americans I've heard about Custer and Little Bighorn my whole life, I even visited the battlefield on a cross country trip a few years ago. This is the first book I've read about it, I wanted to uncover what all the hoopla is about. Why is there an entire field of pseudo-scholar...

from earthwind

Finally after a lifetime study of the Lakota, a writer who helpfully illustrates places and people within numerous first person narrative of events. "The Last Stand is popular history, and it's not fair to expect him to bring new evidence to light...The only fair questions are whether his account...

from setnahkt

The Last Stand is the best book I've read so far about the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Author Nathaniel Philbrick is noted for books on maritime events; he observes (and comments that other historians have also noted) that warfare on the Great Plains was somewhat similar to navigation on the op...

from Sararush

The Last Stand is not only comprehensive well rounded study of The Battle of Little Big Horn, but author Nathaniel Philbrick also gives a near exhaustive study of the context surrounding the infamous battle. I was drawn to the novel due to my enjoyment of Philbrick's other works, but the subject ...

from Unkletom

As he did previously to the Pilgrims in 'Mayflower' and to Moby Dick, 'In the Heart of the Sea', Philbrick has once again taken one of our cherished national legends and exposed it to the harsh glare of truth. Whether you believe that Custer was a national hero or a vain, strutting popinjay whose...