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Custer's last campaign : Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn reconstructed / John S. Gray ; foreword by Robert M. Utley.
- Title
- Custer's last campaign : Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn reconstructed / John S. Gray ; foreword by Robert M. Utley.
- Author
- Gray, John S. (John Stephens), 1910-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E83.876.B79 G73 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 446 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Reconstructs the entire sequence of events of the campaign of 1876 and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- Alternative Title
- Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn reconstructed
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-430) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Mitch Boyer Story. Dakota origins -- Adventures on the North Platte -- Roaming the Yellowstone Valley -- A peace treaty brings war -- Freighting to Fort C.F. Smith -- Army Scout at Fort C.F. Smith -- Red Cloud's war winds down -- Adoption by the Crows -- The Crows survive a removal threat -- The Crow agency moves closer to the Sioux -- Mounting a war against the Sioux -- Guiding the Montana Column -- Bradley finds and Gibbon loses the Sioux -- The Gibbon-Terry Connection -- Custer's Last Campaign. Guiding the Reno reconnaissance -- Terry sends Custer up the Rosebud -- To the Crow's nest and the Divide -- The descent to the lone tepee -- The approach to Little Bighorn -- Reno's fight and retreat -- Disorder on Reno Hill -- Custer moves down the right bank -- Custer's maneuvering and skirmishing -- Curley's escape -- The final minutes -- Appendix: Michael Boyer's testimony on the Fetterman.
- ISBN
- 080322138X (alk. paper) :
- LCCN
- ^^^90037673^
- OCLC
- 21561277
- SCSB-10675394
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library