Custer Survivor

by Koster, John

• ISBN13: 9781933909035
• ISBN10: 193390903X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-02
• Publisher: History Pub Co Llc

Summary

On June 25, 1876 in the Valley of the Little Big Horn River, the combined forces of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors responded to the surprise attack on their quiet village by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. Quickly reversing the momentum of the cavalry charge, the warriors pushed the five companies of troopers with Custer to the crest of a hill and then annihilated them.

Author Biography

John Koster is also the coauthor of the award-winning. The Road to Wounded Knee. Archivist Minjae Kim assisted him in Custer Survivor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 5
Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
The Man Who was Frank Finkel
Drums in the Night	p. 17
The Attack	p. 31
Surviving After the Battle	p. 47
Before Little Big Horn	p. 55
Enlisting and Everything Prussian	p. 63
Life After Little Big Horn	p. 73
The Admission	p. 101
Life in Public View	p. 105
The Final Years	p. 115
The Experts Pro and Con
Starting the Fire, Wrong Smoke Signals	p. 129
The Naysayer	p. 153
The Champion	p. 163
The Facts
The End of Her Trail	p. 171
They Almost Made It	p. 173
The Bravest Man and the Horse That Made It	p. 177
After the Battle	p. 181
It's All in the Writing, the Final Fact	p. 187
Afterword	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 211
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