The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Author: Orin Grant Libby

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780806130729

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Eyewitness reports on Custer's campaigns from 1874 through 1876 are told in Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the result of interviews with nine scouts. Arikaras scouted in advance of the U.S. Army for Custer and Reno, reporting enemy Indian movements and seeking to capture their horses. Their accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn reveal much about why Custer failed.


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Download or read book The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn written by Orin Grant Libby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness reports on Custer's campaigns from 1874 through 1876 are told in Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the result of interviews with nine scouts. Arikaras scouted in advance of the U.S. Army for Custer and Reno, reporting enemy Indian movements and seeking to capture their horses. Their accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn reveal much about why Custer failed.


The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas June 1876

The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas June 1876

Author: Orin Grant Libby

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-14

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 9781093973020

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Considered one of the most important source documents for the study of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, the Arikara Narrative is a fascinating account of this seminal event. No scholar of the Little Bighorn conflict omits this book from their bibliography. George Armstrong Custer rode to the Little Bighorn with forty Arikara scouts (among others). Of this group, nine survivors were interviewed in 1912. Their accounts of the battle were carefully translated and then published in 1920. From inside the book: "The purpose in publishing this material on the Indian campaign of 1876 is twofold. Merely as a matter of justice to the Arikara Indian scouts their version of the campaign in which they played an important part should have long ago been given to the public. Nearly every other conceivable angle of this memorable campaign has received attention and study. But during the past generation the Arikara scouts, true to their oath of fealty to the government as they understood it, have remained silent as to their own part in those eventful days. "The present narrative is designed to make public the real story of the Arikara Indian scouts who served with Terry and under the immediate command of Custer. In August, 1912, the nine survivors of some forty of these scouts met at the home of Bear's Belly on the Fort Berthold Reservation, at Armstrong, and there they related to Judge A. McG. Beede and to the secretary of the State Historical Society the various portions of the narrative that follow. Each of the scouts gave that special portion of the whole with which he was most familiar. The narrators were very scrupulous to confine themselves to just that portion of the common experience to which they were eye witnesses." CONTENTS Historical Introduction Narrative Of The Arikara Sitting Bear's Story Story of the First Enlistment The Narrative as continued by Soldier The Enlistment as told by Young Hawk The Second Enlistment Red Bear's Story Boy Chief's Story of His Enlistment Account of an Interview with Custer Red Star's Story of the March Story of how the Mail was brought Continuation of Red Star's Story Young Hawk's Story Red Star's Story continued Red Star's Story of Special Scout Work Narrative of Young Hawk Supplementary Story by Soldier Continuation by Red Star Boy Chief, and Strikes Two Red Star's Additional Interview Supplementary Story by Red Bear Later Story by Running Wolf Later Story of Little Sioux Later Story of Goes-Ahead Appendix Expedition To The Black Hills Gerard's Story Of The Custer Fight Biographies Soldier Strikes Two Young Hawk Red Star Red Bear One Feather Running Wolf Goes Ahead, Crow Scout James Coleman


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Download or read book The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas June 1876 written by Orin Grant Libby and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the most important source documents for the study of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, the Arikara Narrative is a fascinating account of this seminal event. No scholar of the Little Bighorn conflict omits this book from their bibliography. George Armstrong Custer rode to the Little Bighorn with forty Arikara scouts (among others). Of this group, nine survivors were interviewed in 1912. Their accounts of the battle were carefully translated and then published in 1920. From inside the book: "The purpose in publishing this material on the Indian campaign of 1876 is twofold. Merely as a matter of justice to the Arikara Indian scouts their version of the campaign in which they played an important part should have long ago been given to the public. Nearly every other conceivable angle of this memorable campaign has received attention and study. But during the past generation the Arikara scouts, true to their oath of fealty to the government as they understood it, have remained silent as to their own part in those eventful days. "The present narrative is designed to make public the real story of the Arikara Indian scouts who served with Terry and under the immediate command of Custer. In August, 1912, the nine survivors of some forty of these scouts met at the home of Bear's Belly on the Fort Berthold Reservation, at Armstrong, and there they related to Judge A. McG. Beede and to the secretary of the State Historical Society the various portions of the narrative that follow. Each of the scouts gave that special portion of the whole with which he was most familiar. The narrators were very scrupulous to confine themselves to just that portion of the common experience to which they were eye witnesses." CONTENTS Historical Introduction Narrative Of The Arikara Sitting Bear's Story Story of the First Enlistment The Narrative as continued by Soldier The Enlistment as told by Young Hawk The Second Enlistment Red Bear's Story Boy Chief's Story of His Enlistment Account of an Interview with Custer Red Star's Story of the March Story of how the Mail was brought Continuation of Red Star's Story Young Hawk's Story Red Star's Story continued Red Star's Story of Special Scout Work Narrative of Young Hawk Supplementary Story by Soldier Continuation by Red Star Boy Chief, and Strikes Two Red Star's Additional Interview Supplementary Story by Red Bear Later Story by Running Wolf Later Story of Little Sioux Later Story of Goes-Ahead Appendix Expedition To The Black Hills Gerard's Story Of The Custer Fight Biographies Soldier Strikes Two Young Hawk Red Star Red Bear One Feather Running Wolf Goes Ahead, Crow Scout James Coleman


The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas, June, 1876

The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas, June, 1876

Author: Orin Grant Libby

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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The Custer Tragedy

The Custer Tragedy

Author: Fred Dustin

Publisher: Upton & Sons

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book The Custer Tragedy written by Fred Dustin and published by Upton & Sons. This book was released on 1987 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


It is a Good Day to Die

It is a Good Day to Die

Author: Herman J. Viola

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2001-09-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780803296268

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Indian eyewitnesses tell the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.


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Download or read book It is a Good Day to Die written by Herman J. Viola and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian eyewitnesses tell the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.


Troopers with Custer

Troopers with Custer

Author: E. A. Brininstool

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780811717427

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Dramatic firsthand tales of the events preceding the Battle of the Little Big Horn told through exciting eyewitness accounts of participants.


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Download or read book Troopers with Custer written by E. A. Brininstool and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic firsthand tales of the events preceding the Battle of the Little Big Horn told through exciting eyewitness accounts of participants.


Little Bighorn Remembered

Little Bighorn Remembered

Author: Herman J. Viola

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the elite U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. It was a shocking defeat--or magnificent victory, depending on your point of view--and more than a century later it is still the object of controversy, debate, and fascination. What really happened on that fateful day? Now, thanks to the work of Herman J. Viola, Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, we are much closer to answering that question. Dr. Viola, a leader in the preservation of Native American culture and history, has collected here dozens of dramatic, never-before-published accounts by Indians who participated in the battle--accounts that have been handed down to the present day, often secretly and accompanied by oaths of silence, from one generation to the next. These remarkable eyewitness recollections provide a direct link to that day's events; together they constitute an unprecedented oral history of the battle from the Native American point of view and the most comprehensive eyewitness description of Little Bighorn we have ever had. Here are the dramatic stories of the Cheyenne and Lakota warriors who rode into battle against Custer, the yellow-haired Son of the Morning Star, an adversary whose valor they admired--but who became a mortal enemy after breaking his peace-pipe oath, a scene described vividly in these pages. Here in their own words are the stories of the Crow scouts, allies of Custer, who advised against attacking Sitting Bull's village on the Little Bighorn. Hereare tales of valor told by the Arikara scouts who fought side by side with Custer's men against the Lakota and Cheyenne; although the Great Father in Washington rewarded their heroism with silence, it is celebrated to this day in tribal stories and songs that come to us from beyond the grave with hair-raising immediacy and power. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred maps, photographs, reproductions, and drawings, this remarkable book also includes: An account of the battle, including startling descriptions of Custer's conduct, collected from the Crow scouts by the famed photographer Edward S. Curtis in 1908. Curtis never published this report--President Theodore Roosevelt advised him not to--and it remained a secret until his ninety-year-old son recently gave the material to the Smithsonian. New archaeological evidence from the battlefield that casts fresh light on the Seventh Cavalry's movements, along with discoveries from the site of Sitting Bull's village--including the complete skeleton of a cavalry horse with its rider's well- preserved saddlebags and personal items. A series of illustrations made soon after the battle by Red Horse, a remarkable tableau that is reproduced here in its entirety for the first time. Three letters written by Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily just days before he died at Little Bighorn that provide key and potentially controversial insights into the conduct of the cavalry under Custer's command. In short, this landmark book takes us much closer to knowing what really happened on that June day in 1876 when Custer died and a legend was born.


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Download or read book Little Bighorn Remembered written by Herman J. Viola and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the elite U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. It was a shocking defeat--or magnificent victory, depending on your point of view--and more than a century later it is still the object of controversy, debate, and fascination. What really happened on that fateful day? Now, thanks to the work of Herman J. Viola, Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, we are much closer to answering that question. Dr. Viola, a leader in the preservation of Native American culture and history, has collected here dozens of dramatic, never-before-published accounts by Indians who participated in the battle--accounts that have been handed down to the present day, often secretly and accompanied by oaths of silence, from one generation to the next. These remarkable eyewitness recollections provide a direct link to that day's events; together they constitute an unprecedented oral history of the battle from the Native American point of view and the most comprehensive eyewitness description of Little Bighorn we have ever had. Here are the dramatic stories of the Cheyenne and Lakota warriors who rode into battle against Custer, the yellow-haired Son of the Morning Star, an adversary whose valor they admired--but who became a mortal enemy after breaking his peace-pipe oath, a scene described vividly in these pages. Here in their own words are the stories of the Crow scouts, allies of Custer, who advised against attacking Sitting Bull's village on the Little Bighorn. Hereare tales of valor told by the Arikara scouts who fought side by side with Custer's men against the Lakota and Cheyenne; although the Great Father in Washington rewarded their heroism with silence, it is celebrated to this day in tribal stories and songs that come to us from beyond the grave with hair-raising immediacy and power. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred maps, photographs, reproductions, and drawings, this remarkable book also includes: An account of the battle, including startling descriptions of Custer's conduct, collected from the Crow scouts by the famed photographer Edward S. Curtis in 1908. Curtis never published this report--President Theodore Roosevelt advised him not to--and it remained a secret until his ninety-year-old son recently gave the material to the Smithsonian. New archaeological evidence from the battlefield that casts fresh light on the Seventh Cavalry's movements, along with discoveries from the site of Sitting Bull's village--including the complete skeleton of a cavalry horse with its rider's well- preserved saddlebags and personal items. A series of illustrations made soon after the battle by Red Horse, a remarkable tableau that is reproduced here in its entirety for the first time. Three letters written by Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily just days before he died at Little Bighorn that provide key and potentially controversial insights into the conduct of the cavalry under Custer's command. In short, this landmark book takes us much closer to knowing what really happened on that June day in 1876 when Custer died and a legend was born.


A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

Author: Brad D. Lookingbill

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-09-23

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1119071879

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An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culture


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Download or read book A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign written by Brad D. Lookingbill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culture


Custer Battlefield

Custer Battlefield

Author: Robert M. Utley

Publisher: National Park Service Division of Publications

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Tells the story of Custer's last stand against the Indians in the Sioux War of 1876. Includes maps and photos. Also recounts the history of how that battlefield became a national monument and its importance to Americans today and in the past.


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Download or read book Custer Battlefield written by Robert M. Utley and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Custer's last stand against the Indians in the Sioux War of 1876. Includes maps and photos. Also recounts the history of how that battlefield became a national monument and its importance to Americans today and in the past.


Custer's Scouts at the Little Bighorn

Custer's Scouts at the Little Bighorn

Author: Arikara Scouts

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-28

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781519036254

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Would you be surprised to know that along with Custer's 7th Cavalry on the way to the Little Bighorn rode scores of Native American scouts employed by the army?Considered one of the most important source documents for the study of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand), the Arikara Narrative is a fascinating account of this seminal event. No scholar of the Little Bighorn conflict omits this book from their bibliography.George Armstrong Custer rode to the Little Bighorn with Arikara and Crow scouts, and even the half-Sioux legend, Mitch Bouyer. Of this group, nine survivors were interviewed in 1912. Their accounts of the battle were carefully translated and then published in 1920.


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Download or read book Custer's Scouts at the Little Bighorn written by Arikara Scouts and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you be surprised to know that along with Custer's 7th Cavalry on the way to the Little Bighorn rode scores of Native American scouts employed by the army?Considered one of the most important source documents for the study of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand), the Arikara Narrative is a fascinating account of this seminal event. No scholar of the Little Bighorn conflict omits this book from their bibliography.George Armstrong Custer rode to the Little Bighorn with Arikara and Crow scouts, and even the half-Sioux legend, Mitch Bouyer. Of this group, nine survivors were interviewed in 1912. Their accounts of the battle were carefully translated and then published in 1920.