The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

1969.

Illustration Credits

    Photograph on pages iv–v by the author.

    Black-and-White Insert Following Page 72

    Insert pages 1–2: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Pages 2–3: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (top). Page 3: State Historical Society of North Dakota, C0743 (bottom). Pages 4–5: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Page 6: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (top). Pages 7–8: National Archives. Page 9 : National Archives (top); author’s collection (bottom). Page 10: National Archives. Page 11: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 0087-038 (top); Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (middle); Walter Mason Camp Collection, Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University (bottom). Page 12: National Archives. Page 13: Montana Historical Society Research Center (top); State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1952-6424 (bottom). Page 14: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 3179-b- 15). Page 15: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (top); National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (bottom). Page 16: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG3730.PH24 (top); Nebraska State Historical Society, RG1227. PH0101 (bottom).

    Color Insert Following Page 168

    Insert page 1: Photograph by the author (top, bottom). Page 2: author’s collection (top left); National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 08584800) (bottom left). Pages 2–3: University of Nebraska Press. Page 4: University of Nebraska Press (top); National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 08569200) (bottom). Page 5: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 08705700). Page 6: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 08569800) (top); Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (bottom). Page 7: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (top, bottom). Page 8: Photograph by the author.

    Black-and-White Insert Following Page 264

    Insert pages 1–8: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Page 9 : State Historical Society of North Dakota, A0179-03 (top left); Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (middle right, bottom left). Page 10 : National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 08568400) (top); courtesy West Point Museum Art Collection, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York (middle); courtesy of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota (bottom). Page 11 : Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (top). Page 12 : Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Page 13 : Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (top); Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (middle, bottom). Page 14 : Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (top); Thomas Bailey Marquis Papers (box 3), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (middle); Montana Historical Society Research Center (bottom). Page 15 : National Archives (top); State Historical Society of North Dakota, A7220 (bottom). Page 16 : State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1952-3184 (top); National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (INV 3195-h-1) (bottom).

Index

    Adams, Jacob
    Alexander, Steve
    American frontier
    American Indians
    eventual defeat of
    government reduces rations for
    and loss of land
    nineteenth-century view of
    nomadic lifestyle of
    and poverty
    single worst act against
    and spiritual power of water
    and surveyors
    territories of
    warfare strategy of
    warrior society of
    white expansion and
    see also specific tribes
    American West
    and baseball
    bloodstained march across
    chroniclers of
    and Custer as icon
    and greatest military loss
    greatest military siege of
    harsh landscape of
    quintessential innovations of
    Apache
    Arapaho
    Arikara Indian scouts
    and Battle of Little Bighorn
    and capturing of horses
    and Custer
    names for Seventh Cavalry leaders
    preparing for battle
    tracking skills of
    under Varnum’s command
    see also individual names
    Assiniboine
    Atlantic magazine
    Bacon, Daniel
    Bacon, Elizabeth “Libbie,” see Custer, Elizabeth “Libbie”
    Baker, Gerard
    Barrett, Lawrence
    Barrows, Samuel June
    baseball
    Battle of Killdeer Mountain
    Battle of Little Bighorn
    aftermath of
    and alcohol consumption
    and bravery of Indians
    and bravery of soldiers
    and court of inquiry
    and descendants of