The Custer Myth

“I have collected here, and offer in this volume, a great many bits of now scarce source material, from which you, the reader, may construct a mosaic of your own, appraising the value and proper placement of each item, should you wish to write a story of Custer’s Last Fight. It will probably be a better one than many heretofore written.” From the Custer Myth Firsthand sources in The Custer Myth include: ·Narratives of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arikara, and Crow ·Philo Clark’s 1877 battlefield survey ·Statements and letters by scouts and other nonmilitary participants ·The Benteen-Goldin letters ·“Custer’s’ Last Battle,” the 1892 Century Magazine article by General Edward S. Godfrey ·General Winfield Scott Edgerly’s 1881 statement about the battle ·Military and literary records of Theodore W. Goldin