On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264
members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000
warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and
were killed in the ensuing battle.
Acclaimed historian Dee Brown traces the events of that day and
of the weeks before, through the eyes and ears of seventeen
participants from both sides, including Natives, scouts, soldiers,
and civilians.
Why did Custer divide his forces? Why did he not take his
regiment's Gatling guns? Why did he expect Sitting Bull to
surrender without a fight? How did Sitting Bull's vision at the sun
dance on the Rosebud foretell the occasion and the outcome of the
battle? How did war chiefs Crazy Horse and Gall take advantage of
Custer's tactical errors? And why did they preserve Custer's body
from mutilation?
"Showdown at Little Big Horn" answers these and other questions,
telling the story of the fight from many points of view, based on
reports, diaries, letters, and testimony of the participants
themselves. Together the accounts provide a gripping narrative of a
punitive expedition gone badly awry and an assemblage of Native
peoples who forestalled for a while the army's domination of the
northern plains.
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