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Crazy Horse and Custer, the parallel lives of two American warriors, Stephen E. Ambrose

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Crazy Horse and Custer, the parallel lives of two American warriors, Stephen E. Ambrose

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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portraitsillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crazy Horse and Custer

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionariesbibliography

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Stephen E. Ambrose

Sub title

the parallel lives of two American warriors

Summary

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages. Both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; A Word of Special Thanks; Contents; List of Photographs; List of Maps; Introduction; Part One; Chapter 1: The Setting and the People: The Great Plains; Chapter 2: The Setting and the People: Ohio; Chapter 3: "Curly"; Chapter 4: Curly's Vision; Chapter 5: Autie; Chapter 6: Custer at West Point; Chapter 7: Custer and Crazy Horse on the Eve of Manhood; Part Two; Chapter 8: War and Love Among the Oglalas; Chapter 9: Guerrilla Warfare, Indian Style; Chapter 10: War and Love Among the Americans; Chapter 11: The Boy General and the Glorious WarChapter 12: Crazy Horse and Custer as Young WarriorsPart Three; Chapter 13: Crazy Horse and the Fort Phil Kearny Battle; Chapter 14: Custer Comes to the Plains; Chapter 15: Summer on the Plains: 1867; Chapter 16: The Treaty of 1868 and the Battle of the Washita; Chapter 17: Truce on the High Plains, 1869-73; Part Four; Chapter 18: Crazy Horse and Custer on the Yellowstone, 1873; Chapter 19: The Panic of 1873 and the Black Hills Expedition of 1874; Chapter 20: Politics: Red and White; Chapter 21: Crazy Horse Fights on the Rosebud While Custer Closes InChapter 22: The Battle of the Little BighornChapter 23: The Death of Crazy Horse; Chapter 24: What Happened to the Others; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright

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