This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American
history about which much has been written - the period of the
Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until
the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. It presents in graphic
detail and on a vast canvas the great events and the small which
reached a decisive crescendo in Custer's fate. Here is no savage
battle incident presented in isolation from other events, but a
sweeping panorama of a whole ere-inept, hesitant, and tragic.
To insure comprehensiveness, the author describes the pertinent
facts of the Grant administration, the embitterment of the Great
Plains tribes, and the deteriorating Civil War army. The book is
the record not only of the dashing Seventh Cavalry and its leader
but also of the Grant-Custer feud, Sitting Bull, the Belknap
scandal, Rain-in-the-Face, the battle strategy of the Indians, and
Custer's military rivals. Particular note is taken of the effect on
history of Custer's recklessness and glory-seeking and of the
superstitions and fatalistic determination of the Sioux and the
Cheyennes.
The Battle of the Little Big Horn, reconstructed in this account
largely on Indian eyewitness testimony, climaxed the
long-developing tragedy and provided a "smashing crescendo to the
vacillating policy of the United States government...towards the
Indians of the Great Plains."
A four color reproduction of an oil painting by John Hauser,
entitled "The Challenge," has been selected for the cover of
"Custer's Luck." The original canvas is in the collection of the
Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, and the publishers gratefully acknowledge the cooperation
of that organization in making this reproduction possible.
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