Custer

Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story by David Humphreys Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Custer’s FALL,
The Native American side of the Story.
By David Humphreys Miller.

271 pages of authentic history about the Battle of Little Big Horn.  Everyone has heard about the infamous “Custer’s Last Stand.”  Articles have been published, books have been written, even movies have been made about it.  It was described as a “massacre” but Custer and his troops were not unarmed innocent parties and in fact were the aggressors in the incident.  Most of us envision Custer as the “last man standing” – blazing away at the enemy with a weapon in each hand and fallen comrades all around him.  It was surprising to read from eyewitness accounts that Colonel Custer was mortally wounded very early in the battle when he stopped in the middle of fording the Little Big Horn River to attack a Cheyenne village.  There are a lot more revelations in this book if you have a taste for authentic wild west history.


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