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Chief Red Horse tells about Custer

the Battle of the Little Bighorn : an eyewitness account told in Indian sign language
1981
Relates the account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn told five years later by Sioux Chief Red Horse who fought in the conflict.

Custer and Crazy Horse

a story of two warriors
1989
Recounts the events in the lives of the Oglala Sioux chief and the United States Army officer who met at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn

2002
Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the fateful encounter at the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876, between the Seventh Cavalry troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Custer and the Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux led by Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

Crazy Horse in stillness

poems
1996
Collection of more than 400 poems exploring the collision between European and Native American culture, especially in the lives of General Armstrong Custer and Sioux warrior-mystic Crazy Horse.

Custer's luck

1955
Chronicles the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the factors influencing it, including the unrest in the Plains tribes, Custer's animosity with other military leaders, the U.S. government's policies concerning Native Americans, and other related topics.

Little Bighorn

1997
Chronicles the Indian Wars with a focus on the Battle of Little Bighorn and the career of George Armstrong Custer.

Soldier boy

1997
A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn

1997
The story of the worst defeat ever suffered by the United States Army at the hands of the American Indians near the Little Bighorn River in Montana on June 25, 1876.

Custer's last stand

opposing viewpoints
1990
Investigates what actually happened at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and why it happened.

George Armstrong Custer

Civil War General and western legend
2000
Traces the life of the legendary Civil War general who began his career as a West Point cadet and after becoming a legend in the west was perhaps best-known for his "last stand.".

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