Custer's Last Prayer
Custer's Last Prayer
General Custer, the battle of the Little Bighorn Native Americans, Old West, the Battle of the Washita, the Civil War
"CUSTER'S LAST STAND" Movie/Documentary by the BBC, 2007 With Toby Stephens. The movie recreates the battle of the Little Bighorn and unsmasks several actions that could explain the defeat. Accuracy : very good
The Reno Court of Inquiry (testimonies and evidence of betrayal at Little Big Horn)
RENO IN THE TIMBER Reno attracted the Indians by attacking them, and Fred Gerard and Sergeant Davern, Reno's orderly, said that it was exactly what Custer wanted : "to bring Indians to battle" (Gerard). Not to "charge the village", as Reno said in 1879,...
TERRY'S ORDERS Annual Report of the Secretary of War for 1876, which is House Executive Document 1 for the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress (Serial volume 1742), page 462 Headquarters of the Department of Dakota (In the Field) Camp at Mouth...
LAKOTA NOON AT THE GREASY GRASS by Gregory F. Michno, member of custerwest.org, who received a bachelor of science degree at Michigan State University and a master's in history at the University of Northern Colorado, is employed by the Michigan State...
ROBER UTLEY ON CUSTER'S ACTIONS source: Historian Robert Utley, Cavalier In Buckskin, new edition 2001, pp.159-162 “Despite the consequences, the decision to attack on June 25 was sound. […] “Benteen counted himself out, as timing factors shows. When...
INDIAN TESTIMONIES ON CUSTER'S RESISTANCE source: Gregory Michno, Lakota Noon, the Indian narrative of Custer's defeat, Mountain Press, 1997 Crow King, Sioux hunkpapa warchief (Michno, p.178): Riderless mounts scattered across the hills and ran to the...