Bourke, John. Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyenne. New York, 1966.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York, 1971.
Connell, Evan. Son of the Morning Star. San Francisco, 1984.
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon. Boots and Saddles. New York, 1985.
———. Following the Guidon. New York, 1893.
———. Tenting on the Plains. New York, 1890.
Custer, George Armstrong. My Life on the Plains. New York, 1995.
Donovan, James. A Terrible Glory. New York, 2008.
Elliott, Michael. Custerology. Chicago, 2007.
Leckie, Shirley A. Elizabeth Baker Custer and the Making of a Myth. Norman, 1993.
Nabokov, Peter, ed. Native American Testimony. New York, 1991.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. The Last Stand. New York, 2010.
Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment. New York, 1985.
Utley, Robert. Cavalier in Buckskin. Norman, 1988.
———. The Lance and the Shield. New York, 1993.
There is, as I’ve said earlier, a vast literature, or subliterature, about Custer, most of it peculiar and most of it cranky. It reminds me somehow of the equally vast and cranky literature about Sherlock Holmes.
The literature the various Western groups publish is often to be found in “Brand Books,” and other homemade amalgams, and addresses itself to every possible topic.
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1. Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839–1876. 2. Generals—United States—Biography. 3. United States. Army—Biography. 4. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. 5. Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. 6. Indians of North America—Wars—Great Plains. I. Title.
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