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  Burdick, Usher L., ed. The Army Life of Charles “Chip” Creighton. Paris, Md.: National Reform Assoc., 1937.

  Burkey, Blaine. Custer, Come at Once! Chicago: Thomas More Press, 1976.

  Burrows, Jack. “From Bull Run to the Little Big Horn.” American West 5, no. 2 (March 1968), pp. 51, 61, 64.

  Burt, Struthers. Powder River, Let ’Er Buck. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1938.

  Calloway, Colin G. “The Intertribal Balance of Power on the Great Plains, 1760–1850.” Journal of American Studies 16 (1982), pp. 25–47.

  ———. “ ‘The Only Way Open to Us’: The Crow Struggle for Survival in the Nineteenth Century.” North Dakota History 53 (Summer 1986), pp. 25–34.

  Campsey, William M. “Intuitive Vision Versus Practical Realities: Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.” In Studies in Battle Command. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, pp. 71–74.

  Carhart, Tom. Lost Triumph: Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg—And Why It Failed. New York: Putnam’s, 2005.

  Carrington, Henry B. Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre: Being the Experience of an Offi cer’s Wife on the Plains. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint, 1975.

  Carroll, John M., ed. The Arrest and Killing of Sitting Bull: A Documentary. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon Press, 1986.

  ———, ed. The Benteen-Goldin Letters on Custer and His Last Battle. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1974.

  ———, ed. Camp Talk: The Very Private Letters of Frederick W. Benteen of the 7th U.S. Cavalry to His Wife, 1871 to 1888. Mattituck, N.Y., and Bryan, Tex.: J. M. Carroll, 1983.

  ———, ed. Cavalry Scraps: The Writings of Frederick W. Benteen. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon Press, 1985.

  ———, ed. The Court Martial of Frederick W. Benteen, Major, 9th Cavalry, or Did General Crook Railroad Benteen? Bryan, Tex.: privately printed, 1981.

  ———. The Court-Martial of Thomas French. New Brunswick, N.J.: Gary Owen Press, 1979.

  ———, ed. Custer: From the Civil War to the Little Big Horn. Bryan, Tex.: privately printed, 1981.

  ———. Custer in Periodicals: A Bibliographic Checklist. Fort. Collins, Colo.: Old Army Press, 1975.

  ———, ed. Custer in the Civil War: His Unfinished Memoirs. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1977.

  ———, ed. The D. F. Barry Correspondence at the Custer Battlefield (The Juiciest Ones Being from Capt. Benteen). N.p., n.d.

  ———. Four on Custer by Carroll. New Brunswick, N.J.: Guidon Press, 1976.

  ———, ed. General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn: The Federal View. Bryan, Tex.: Guidon Press, 1978.

  ———, ed. General Custer and the Battle of the Washita: The Federal View. Bryan, Tex.: Guidon Press, 1978.

  ———, ed. The Lieutenant E. A. Garlington Narrative, Part I. Bryan, Tex.: privately printed, n.d.

  ———, ed. A Seventh Cavalry Scrapbook. Bryan, Tex.: privately printed, 1978.

  ———, ed. The Sunshine Magazine Articles by John P. Everett. Bryan, Tex.: privately printed, 1979.

  ———, ed. With the Seventh Cavalry in 1876, by Theodore W. Goldin. Bryan, Tex.: privately printed, 1980.

  Carroll, John M., and Robert Aldrich. “Some Custer and Little Big Horn Facts to Ponder.” English Westerners’ Society Tally Sheet 40, no. 3 (Summer 1994), pp. 102–15.

  Carroll, John M., and Lawrence A. Frost. Private Theodore Ewert’s Diary of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874. Piscataway, N.J.: CRI Books, 1976.

  Carroll, John M., and Jay Smith, eds. Custer and His Times, Book Two. Fort Worth, Tex.: Little Big Horn Associates, 1984.

  Carroll, Mathew. “Diary of Master in Charge of Transportation for Colonel John Gibbon’s Expedition Against the Sioux Indians, 1876.” Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana 2 (1896), pp. 229–40.

  Carter, William H. The U.S. Cavalry Horse. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2003.

  Casler, Michael M. Steamboats of the Fort Union Fur Trade. Williston, N.D.: Fort Union Assoc., 1999.

  Catlin, George. North American Indians. New York: Penguin, 2004.

  Cecil, Jerry. “Lt. Crittenden: Striving for the Soldier’s Life.” Greasy Grass 11 (May 1995), pp. 5–13.

  Chambers, Lee. Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 2008.

  Chandler, Melbourne C. Of Garry Owen in Glory: The History of the 7th U.S. Cavalry. Annandale, Va.: Turnpike, 1960.

  Cheney, Louise. “The Lounsberry Scoop.” American Mercury, June 1961, pp. 91–95.

  Chittenden, Hiram Martin. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge. 2 vols. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1903.

  Chorne, Laudie J. Following the Custer Trail of 1876. Bismarck, N.D.: Printing Plus, 1997.

  Clark, C. E. “An Account of Sand Creek.” English Westerners’ Brand Book 15, no. 2 (Jan. 1973), pp. 34–36.

  Clark, George M. Scalp Dance: The Edgerly Papers on the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Oswego, N.Y.: Heritage Press, 1985.

  Clark, Robert A., ed. The Killing of Crazy Horse. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.

  Clark, William P. Indian Sign Language. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

  Clodfelter, Michael. The Dakota War: The United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862–1865. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998.

  Coffeen, Herbert, ed. Tepee Book 2, no. 6 (June 1916). Repr. 1926.

  Coleman, Thomas W. I Buried Custer: The Diary of Pvt. Thomas W. Coleman, 7th U.S. Cavalry. Edited by Bruce R. Liddic. College Station, Tex.: Creative Publishing, 1979.

  Coleman, William S. E. Voices of Wounded Knee. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

  Collins, John S. Across the Plains in ’64. Omaha, Neb.: National Printing Company, 1904.

  Connell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.

  Convis, Charles L. The Honor of Arms: A Biography of Myles W. Keogh. Tucson, Ariz.: Western-lore, 1990.

  Cooke, Philip St. George. The 1862 U.S. Cavalry Tactics. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1862.

  Cooper, Edward S. Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor. Chicago: Academy of Chicago Publishing, 2004.

  Coughlan, Col. T. M. Varnum: The Last of Custer’s Lieutenants. Bryan, Tex.: J. M. Carroll, 1980.

  ———. “The Battle of the Little Big Horn: A Tactical Study.” Cavalry Journal 43, no. 181 ( Jan.–Feb. 1934), pp. 13–21.

  Coward, John M. The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

  Cox, Kurt Hamilton, and John Langellier. Custer and His Commands, from West Point to Little Bighorn. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002.

  Cozzens, Peter Gould, ed. Conquering the Southern Plains: Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 2003.

  ———. Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890. Vol. 4, The Long War for the Northern Plains. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 2004.

  ———. Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890. Vol. 5, The Army and the Indian. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 2005.

  Crawford, Lewis F. Rekindling Camp Fires. Bismarck, N.D.: Capital Books, 1926.

  Creveld, Martin van. Command in War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.

  Crook, George. General George Crook: His Autobiography. Edited by Martin F. Schmitt. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946.

  Cross, Walt. Custer’s Lost Offi cer: The Search for Lieutenant Henry Moore Harrington, 7th Cavalry. Stillwater, Okla.: Cross Publications, 2006.

  Crouch, Tom D. The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.

  Custer, Elizabeth B. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.

  ———. Following the Guidon. New York: Harper, 1890.


  ———. Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

  Custer, George Armstrong. “Battling with the Sioux on the Yellowstone.” In The Custer Reader, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

  ———. My Life on the Plains, or Personal Experiences with Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

  ———. Testimony Before the Clymer Committee. 44th Cong., 1st Ses., House of Representatives, report no. 799.

  Danker, Donald F., ed. Man of the Plains: Recollections of Luther North, 1856–1882. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.

  Darling, Roger. Benteen’s Scout-to-the-Left: The Route from the Divide to the Morass (June 25, 1876). El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 1987.

  ———. Custer’s Seventh Cavalry Comes to Dakota: New Discoveries Reveal Custer’s Tribulations Enroute to the Yellowstone Expedition. El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 1989.

  ———. General Custer’s Final Hours: Correcting a Century of Misconceived History. Vienna, Va.: Potomac-Western Press, 1992.

  ———. A Sad and Terrible Blunder: Generals Terry and Custer at the Little Big Horn. New Discoveries . Vienna, Va.: Potomac-Western Press, 1990.

  Dary, David A. The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal. Columbus, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1989.

  Davis, William C. Frontier Skills: The Tactics and Weapons That Won the American West. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2003.

  DeBarthe, Joe. Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard. St. Joseph, Mo.: Combe, 1894.

  DeLand, Charles Edmund. The Sioux Wars. Vol. 15 of South Dakota Historical Collections. Pierre, S.D.: Hipple Printing, 1930.

  Deloria, Ella C. Speaking of Indians. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

  ———. “The Sun Dance of the Oglala Sioux.” Journal of American Folk-Lore 42, no. 166 (Oct.–Dec. 1929), pp. 354–413.

  ———. Waterlily. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

  Deloria, Vine, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

  Deloria, Vine, Jr., and Raymond DeMallie, eds. Proceedings of the Great Peace Commission. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 1975.

  DeMallie, Raymond J., ed. Plains. Volume 13, parts 1 and 2 of Handbook of North American Indians. Series ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2001.

  ———, ed. The Sixth Grandfather. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

  ———. “ ‘These Have No Ears’: Narrative and Ethnohistorical Method.” Ethnohistory 40 (1993), pp. 515–38.

  DeMallie, Raymond J., and Douglas R. Parks, eds. Sioux Indian Religion. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

  Denig, Edwin Thompson. Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arikaras, Crees, Assiniboines, Crows. Edited by John C. Ewers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

  Densmore, Frances. Teton Sioux Music and Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

  DeRudio, Charles C. “My Personal Story.” Edited by Clyde McLemore. Frontier and Midland 14, no. 2 ( Jan. 1934), pp. 155–59.

  De Trobriand, Regis. Military Life in Dakota. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

  DeVoto, Bernard. Across the Wide Missouri. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.

  ———. The Course of Empire. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.

  DiMarco, Louis A. War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider. Yardley, Pa.: Westholme Publishers, 2008.

  Dippie, Brian W. Custer’s Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

  ———, ed. Nomad: George A. Custer in Turf, Field and Farm. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

  Dixon, David. “The Sordid Side of the Seventh Cavalry.” Research Review 1, no. 1 (June 1987), pp. 12–21.

  Dixon, Joseph K. The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. 1913; repr., New York: Popular Library, 1972.

  Dixon, Norman. On the Psychology of Military Incompetence. London: Pimlico, 1994.

  Doll, Don. Vision Quest: Men, Women, and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation. New York: Random House, 1995.

  Donahue, Michael. Drawing Battle Lines: The Map Testimony of Custer’s Last Fight. El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 2008.

  Donovan, James. A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn; The Last Great Battle of the American West. New York: Little, Brown, 2008.

  Dorsey, George A. “The Medicine or Sun Dance.” Field Columbian Museum 9, no. 1 (Mar. 1905), pp. 30–186.

  Doyle, P., and Mather R. Bennett, eds. Fields of Battle: Terrain in Military History. Geojournal Library, vol. 64 (Spring 2002).

  duBois, Charles G. The Custer Mystery. El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 1986.

  ———. Kick the Dead Lion: A Casebook of the Custer Battle. El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 1987.

  duMont, John S. Custer Battle Guns. Fort Collins, Colo.: Old Army Press, 1974.

  Dunlay, Thomas W. Wolves for the Blue Soldiers: Indian Scouts and Auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860–90. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

  Dunn, J. P., Jr. Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars in the Far West. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 2002.

  Du Picq, A. Battle Studies. Harrisburg, Pa.: Military Service Publishing, 1946.

  Dustin, Fred. The Custer Tragedy: Events Leading Up To and Following the Little Big Horn Campaign of 1876. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1939.

  Dyer, Gwynne. War: The Lethal Custom. London: Carroll and Graf, 2006.

  Eastman, Charles A. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

  ———. “The Story of the Little Big Horn.” Chautauquan: A Monthly Magazine for Self-Education 31, no. 4 (July 1900), pp. 353–58.

  Ediger, Theodore A., and Vinnie Hoffman. “Some Reminiscences of the Battle of the Washita.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 33 (1955), pp. 137–41.

  Ege, Robert J. Curse Not His Curls. Fort Collins, Colo.: Old Army Press, 1974.

  Elliott, Michael A. Custerology: The Nineteenth-Century Indian Wars and the American Historical Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

  Ellis, Horace. “A Survivor’s Story of the Custer Massacre.” Big Horn–Yellowstone Journal 2 (Spring 1993), p. 7.

  Ellis, John. Cavalry: The History of Mounted Warfare. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, U.K.: Pen and Sword, 2004.

  Ellis, Richard N. “The Humanitarian Generals.” Western Historical Quarterly 3 (Apr. 1972), pp. 169–78.

  Ellison, Douglas W. Mystery of the Rosebud. Medora, N.D.: Western Edge, 2002.

  Ewers, John Canfield. The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2001.

  ———. Indian Life on the Upper Missouri. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.

  ———. Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

  Farioli, Dennis, and Ron Nichols. “Fort A. Lincoln, July 1876.” Greasy Grass 17 (May 2001), pp. 11–16.

  Farlow, Ed. “Custer Massacre.” Annals of Wyoming 4, no. 2 (Oct. 1926), pp. 303–5.

  Farrow, Edward S. Mountain Scouting: A Handbook for Offi cers and Soldiers on the Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

  Finerty, John F. War-Path and Bivouac, or The Conquest of the Sioux. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.

  Flores, Dan L. “Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850.” Journal of American History 78 (Sept. 1991), pp. 465–85.

  ———. “The Great Contraction: Bison and Indians in Northern Plains Environmental History.” In Legacy: New Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, edited by Charles E. Rankin
. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1996.

  ———. The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

  Foley, James. “Walter Camp and Ben Clark.” Research Review 10, no. 1 (Jan. 1996), pp. 17–27.

  Forrest, Earle R. Witnesses at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Monroe, Mich.: Monroe County Library System, 1986.

  Fougera, Katherine Gibson. With Custer’s Cavalry. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

  Fox, Richard Allan, Jr. Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

  ———. “West River History: The Indian Village on Little Bighorn River, June 25–26, 1876.” In Legacy: New Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, edited by Charles E. Rankin. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1996.

  Frazer, Robert W. Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios and Posts Commonly Called Forts West of the Mississippi to 1898. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

  Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989.

  ———. On the Rez. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

  Frederickson, George M. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in America and South Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  Freeman, Henry B. The Freeman Journal: The Infantry in the Sioux Campaign of 1876. Edited by George A. Schneider. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1977.

  Froiland, Sven G. Natural History of the Black Hills and Badlands. Sioux Falls, S.D.: Center for Western Studies, 1999.

  Frost, Lawrence A. “The Black Hills Expedition of 1874.” Red River Valley Historical Review 4, no. 4 (Fall 1979), pp. 5–19.

  ———. The Court-Martial of General George Armstrong Custer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.

  ———. The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography of General George A. Custer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

  ———. Custer Legends. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1981.

  ———. Custer’s 7th Cavalry and the Campaign of 1873. El Segundo, Calif.: Upton and Sons, 1985.

  ———. General Custer’s Libbie. Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1976.

  ———, ed. Some Observations on the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1981.

 

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