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

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by Nathaniel Philbrick


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  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 warriors

  firsthand accounts of

  historians of

  and Indian deaths

  Indians seeking revenge for

  medals awarded for

  movies about

  and mutilated bodies

  myths about

  reenactments of

  and the siege

  significance of

  soldiers attack/charge Indians during

  soldiers attacked by Lakota during

  soldiers buried after

  soldiers killed during

  soldiers retreating from

  soldiers suffering from dehydration

  studies of

  surreal aspects of

  survivors of

  tragedy of

  and transport of wounded

  Battle of Little Bighorn Battlefield

 

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