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Crazy Horse and Custer : the parallel lives of two American warriors
Title:
Crazy Horse and Custer : the parallel lives of two American warriors
ISBN:
9780385479660
Edition:
1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Anchor Books, 1996.
Physical Description:
xiv, 527 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published by Doubleday, 1975.
Summary:
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages; both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.
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