Cheyenne Autumn
by Mari Sandoz |
1492
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley | 
Indian Givers
by Jack Weatherford |
Catastrophe
by David Keys |
Civilization
by Roger Osborne |
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
by John Toohey | 
Cotton
by Stephen Yafa | 
The Twentieth Century
by Howard Zinn |
Love Stories
by Jonathan Ned Katz |
Napoleon's Privates
by Tony Perrottet | 
Civilization on Trial
by Arnold J. Toynbee |
Eyewitness to History
by John Carey |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon | 
Marvelous Possessions
by Stephen Greenblatt | 
The Legacy of Conquest
by Patricia Nelson Limerick | 
Virgin Land
by Henry Nash Smith | 
Fools Crow
by James Welch | 
Blood and Thunder
by Hampton Sides | 
The Heart of Everything That Is
by Bob Drury |
General George Custer's 1876 attack on a huge encampment of Plains Indians has gone down as the most disastrous defeat in American history. Much less understood is how disastrous it was for the "victors, " the Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Sitting Bull: within fifteen years all Native Americans were confined to reservations, their culture in ruins. James Welch poignantly resurrects their side of the story from beneath a mountain of myth and misinterpretation, relating in masterful prose the pride and desperation of a people stripped of treaty rights and hounded from ancestral hunting grounds into wretched reservations. Through this critical missing piece that tells the Indian side of the story, " Killing Custer" rethinks the meaning of the Little Bighorn for a multicultural society.