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English
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"More incisively than many later writers, Brininstool considers the causes of Custer's defeat and questions the alleged cowardice of Major Marcus A. Reno. His exciting reenactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn sets up the reader for a series of turns by its stars and supporting and bit players. Besides the boy general with the golden locks, they include Captain Frederick W. Benteen, the scouts Lieutenant Charles A. Varnum and "Lonesome Charley"...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. The author sketches in details about the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer.
Author
Series
Landmark books volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
A biography of the boy who not only saw his dream to be a general come true, but also became the famous Indian fighter who led the attack against Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
12) The Custer story: the life and intimate letters of General George A. Custer and his wife Elizabeth
Author
Publisher
Devin-Adair
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
13) Black Hills
Author
Language
English
Description
Paha Sapa, 'Black Hills', is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up.
15) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.
Author
Series
Echoes of the Little Big Horn volume 2
Publisher
Upton & Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
