1st Edition

The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn Custer's Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture

By Debra Buchholtz Copyright 2012
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

In June of 1876, the U.S. government’s plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the Battle of Little Bighorn represented a symbolic struggle between the civilized and the savage. Known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass to the Lakota,... Read more

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Time Line: Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn Battle

Chapter One Road to War

Chapter Two Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn

Chapter Three Aftermath

Chapter Four Reverberations

Chapter Five The Battle in Memory and History

Notes

Documents

Bibliography

Biography

Debra Buchholtz is a lecturer in the Geography and Anthropology department at California State Polytechnic University.

"Debra Bucholtz…combines historical analysis and primary documents-first-person accounts, army reports, and treaties- in a superb package... [this] monograph is a superb introduction to the memory of Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn." –Durwood Ball, University of New Mexico, USA