Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed"Gray breathes life into an amazing cast of characters. . . . His accounts of Gibson's movements before uniting with Terry, of Benteen's 'scout, ' of the Weir point actions, of Curley's ride, and of Custer's own trail to immortality are clearly definitive. . . . Custer's Last Campaign is easily the most significant book yet published on the Battle of the Little Bighorn."-Paul L. Hedren, Western Historical Quarterly |
Contents
Foreword | ix |
Appendix B Evidence on Where Men Fell on the Custer Field 404 | xvii |
Index 431 | 28 |
Freighting to Fort C F Smith | 49 |
Army Scout at Fort C F Smith | 59 |
Red Clouds War Winds Down | 73 |
Adoption by the Crows | 84 |
Maps | 94 |
The GibbonTerry Connection | 164 |
CUSTERS LAST CAMPAIGN | 179 |
Guiding the Reno Reconnaissance | 181 |
Terry Sends Custer up the Rosebud | 198 |
To the Crows Nest and the Divide | 220 |
The Descent to the Lone Tepee | 244 |
The Approach to the Little Bighorn | 266 |
Renos Fight and Retreat | 287 |
The Crows Survive a Removal Threat | 97 |
The Crow Agency Moves Closer to the Sioux | 113 |
Mounting a War against the Sioux | 123 |
Guiding the Montana Column | 135 |
The Northern Plains Country 4 | 136 |
Bradley Finds and Gibbon Loses the Sioux | 150 |
Tables | 156 |
Disorder on Reno Hill | 308 |
Custer Moves down the Right Bank | 333 |
Custers Maneuvering and Skirmishing | 357 |
Curleys Escape | 373 |
The Final Minutes | 383 |
Appendix A Michael Boyers Testimony on the Fetterman Massacre | 401 |
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