02066cam a2200313 4500 551435234 TxAuBib 20121113120000.0 780424t19781966||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 78008733 9780803291003 0803291000 DLC DLC TxAuBib Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966. The Battle of the Little Bighorn / Mari Sandoz. hardcover. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott, 1978. ©1966. 191 p. : maps ; 20 cm. "Bison book.". Reprint of the ed. published by Lippincott, Philadelphia. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [185]-188. This beautifully written account of the battle on which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life-and lost-reveals on every page Mari Sandoz's intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of Custer's men, the Plains landscape-all are conveyed with such artistry that the reader feels himself transported back to that spring of 1876, when the Army of the Plains began its fateful march toward the Yellowstone...when Custer's Indian guides and even his own men saw, but were obliged to disregard, ominous signs of a vast Indian gathering near by. The background of the tragedy is here: the history of bad blood and broken treaties between the Sioux Nation and the United States, the underlying reason for the Army expedition and for the convocation of Indians on the Little Bighorn that particular year. The author's analysis of Custer's motives and political ambitions sheds new light on an old mystery and will be hotly disputed by the General's admirers. (from inside flap). 19990215. Custer, George Armstrong Battle of the Little Bighorn History. Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 1876. Sioux Nation Battle of the Little Bighorn History.