Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-574) and index.
Contents:
Custer : the Civil War years / Gregory J.W. Urwin -- From West Point to the battlefield / G.A. Custer -- Custer's "last stand" : Trevilian Station, 1864 / Jay Monaghan -- The Battle of Waynesboro / Harlan Page Lloyd -- Photographic essay -- Custer : the Indian fighter / Brian W. Dippie -- The west breaks in General Custer / Minnie Dubbs Millbrook -- Some reminiscences, including the Washita Battle, November 27, 1868 / Edward S. Godfrey -- Expedition to the Yellowstone River in 1873 : letters of a young cavalry officer / Charles W. Larned -- Battling with the Sioux on the Yellowstone / G.A. Custer -- Photographic essay -- The Little Big Horn / Robert M. Utley -- Custer's last battle / Edward S. Godfrey -- The cavalry campaign outfit at the Little Big Horn / James S. Hutchins. The Battle of the Little Bighorn / Chief Joseph White Bull, as told to Stanley Vestal -- Custer's last battle / Charles King -- She watched Custer's last battle / Kate Bighead, as told to Thomas B. Marquis -- Photographic essay -- From Little Bighorn to Little Big Man : the changing image of a western hero in popular culture / Paul Andrew Hutton -- The pictorial record of the old west : Custer's last stand : John Mulvany, Cassilly Adams, and Otto Becker / Robert Taft -- Sunday at the Little Big Horn with George / Eric von Schmidt -- Jack Crabb and the sole survivors of Custer's last stand / Brian W. Dippie -- "Correct in every detail" : General Custer in Hollywood / Paul Andrew Hutton -- Custer : the legend of the martyred hero in America / Bruce A. Rosenberg -- Photographic essay.
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