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"Reno
proved incompetent and Benteen showed his indifference – I will not use the uglier words that have often been in my mind. Both failed Custer and he had to fight it out alone."
Little Bighorn veteran William Taylor, letter to Lieutenant Godfrey, February 20, 1910
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Author of the book"Little Big Man" speaks about the Custer controversy
RAMBO AND JACK CRABB TAKE A STAND
source: American Heritage Magazine
AMERICAN HERITAGE MAGAZINE: When Little Big Man was published, and perhaps more so when the movie version was released, some Custer buffs were outraged by Crabb’s
depiction of their hero as a brutal, narcissistic egomaniac. (...)
THOMAS BERGER, author of Little Big Man: I have never been rebuked for the portrait of Custer in the Little Big Man novel, but I have heard there were some objections to the portrayal in the movie (one, if memory serves, by Sylvester Stallone), which (...)) is more extreme and a good deal more hostile than that of Jack Crabb, who in the book gives Custer some respect for his soldierly courage and dignity. (...)