01702cam a2200361 i 4500 623592890 TxAuBib 20100520120000.0 100126s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010003422 9781410426512 hardcover : alkaline paper 1410426513 hardcover : alkaline paper (OCoLC)502304967 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Philbrick, Nathaniel. The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Nathaniel Philbrick. [Large print edition. Detroit : Wheeler Pub., 2010. 855 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : Viking, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-847). 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. 20100520. Custer, George A George Armstrong 1839-1876. Sitting Bull 1831-1890. Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. Black Hills War, 1876-1877. Large print books. lcgft TXKPL