Remembering Long Hair: Contextualizing Custer's Last Stand in - Softcover

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This is the 2nd edition and is no longer being printed. A newer edition is available. Evolving methodologies for presenting American history have played a role in degrading the public image of George Custer. Early frontier narratives generally provided only Euro-American perspectives of borderland confrontations. In the name of fairness, newer histories rightly focused upon Native American concerns as well, but unfortunately too often at the expense of Euro-American perspectives. To understand historical outcomes, the whole range of perspectives at play in historical encounters should be assessed impartially. Attempting to maintain that focus, this study comparatively assesses contending perspectives leading to the confrontation in 1876 and relies principally on participant perceptions to reconstruct Custer's last fight. Notably, it illustrates the battlefield terrain with maps and photo illustrations during each phase of the fated encounter. Utilizing a myriad of participant accounts. The book graphically illustrates movements and actions by participants during various phases of the battle by means of Color illustrative photographs and delineated maps of specific terrain areas on the battlefield using a balanced Cross-cultural historical perspective.

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