Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American WarriorsThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies at very early ages; both had been stripped of power, and in disgrace had worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie. |
Contents
A Summer on the Plains 1867 | 275 |
The Treaty of 1868 and the Battle of the Washita | 305 |
Truce on the High Plains 186973 | 331 |
PART FOUR | 349 |
Crazy Horse and Custer on the Yellowstone 1873 | 351 |
The Panic of 1873 and the Black Hills Expedi tion of 1874 | 371 |
Politics Red and White | 387 |
Crazy Horse Fights on the Rosebud While Custer Closes In | 411 |
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