Posted by 3636 on October 23, 1999 at 11:18:07:
In Reply to: New Book about Little Bighhorn posted by Walter Weintz on October 04, 1999 at 07:15:23:
: Vistors to your site will want to know that Herman Viola, the curator emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, has just finished LITTLE BIGHORN REMEMBERED: THE UNTOLD IBNDIAN STORY OF CUSTER'S LAST STAND. A large part of this fascinating new book is devoted to the eyewitness accounts of Crow, Dakota, Sioux, Arikara, and Cheyenne scouts and warriors -- including stories they told to their children and grandchildren, stories that have been handed down through several generations but never before published. The book also contains over 200 full-color photographs, paintings, and illustrations -- including a dramatic series of 41 pictographs which shows in detail what happened that day as remembered by Red Horse in 1881.
: Here's what Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., author of 500 Nations : An Illustrated History of North American Indians, has so say about LITTLE BIGHORN REMEMBERED: "I thought that nothing could be added to what we already know about the battle of the Little Bighorn, but I was wrong. This is a fascinating book, with a text and a host of pictures that bring the battle vividly alive and provide the reader with many new details."
: LITTLE BIGHORN REMEMBERED is published by Times Books, a division of Randomn House, and it is in bookstores now. It is also a Main Selection of The History Book Club. And on December 3rd, 1999, it will be the subject of a two-hour special documentary on The History Channel.
: If you are interested in Custer's Last Stand, you won't want to miss this book!
Does the book or will the HC special set forth a version as to whathappened to Custer and his command in those moments after hiscommand was last seen on the high bluffs by Reno? If so, will it differ gratly differ from the versions presently being proferred? Thanks.