Reading Map: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

A History of the Indians of the United States
Angie Debo
Surveys the general history of the conflicts with the aboriginal inhabitants of the U.S. and implications for the long-term welfare of native peoples.

Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
John Keegan
Rediscovers American military heritage including the defeat of the native American population in the nineteenth century.

Indian Wars of the West
Paul Wellman
Records the decade's long struggle between Indian nations and the encroachment of the civilization imposed by the white man.

Custer's Last Campaign
John S. Gray
Sheds light on Custer's command at the Little Bighorn using primary accounts of the battle and employing topographic research in conjunction with time-motion analysis for a reconstruction of what happened.

Custer Survivor: The End of a Myth, the Beginning of a Legend
John Koster
Chronicles the story of how the Second Sergeant of C Company escaped the deadly encirclement of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors including his ensuing ordeal and the subsequent year of his life.

Little Bighorn: Winning the Battle, Losing the War
Michael L. Lawson
Accounts the disastrous defeat of Custer's Seventh Cavalry in southeastern Montana along the Little Bighorn River in 1876 and how the day set events in motion for victory over the Sioux and their allies.

With Custer on the Little Bighorn: A Newly Discovered First-Person Account
William O. Taylor
The memoir of Private William Taylor whose battalion fought at the Little Bighorn under the command of Major Marcus Reno and whose regiment attended to the burial of Custer's dead.