Custer's Luck
by Edgar I. Stewart
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Author: Edgar I. StewartEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1980-04-15
ISBN: 0806116323
Number of pages: 538
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Book Review: Classic Still Holds up Well
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is 55 years old now but is still a classic in particular providing a thorough history of the factors that lead the Lakota conflict that reached back to Red Cloud's War, the economic political reasons for the taking of the Black Hills, the Belknap Affair that consumed Custer and the later third of the book focuses n the LBH. Stewart provides a detailed narrative on the columns approaching the LBH and then launches detail on the 7th's attack that includes a decent balance including the Native American's point of view. Of special note, Stewart recognizes that all the columns were more concerned that the Indians would scatter and although the survivors generally point to the native scouts complaining of the size of the Indian camp, interpreter Fred Gerard called out "Here are your Indians General, running like devils!" as a small group fled from Lone Tepee. Stewart also recognized command issues particularly Benteen who seemed to delay his support, the questions of Reno's performance including his bug out of the valley, he addresses the theory that the 1873 springfield''s fouled, Stewart he clears up the controversy about Curley, he observes that Custer's marches were not over taxing as the Gibbon column marched 29 miles in one day, the Gatling guns couldn't keep up with the infantry, and that the Indians has some modern weaponry long before archeology of the 1980s discovered Henrys and Winchesters. Stewart also offers a broad look at what happened to Custer, including Indians who thought he was killed at the ford and provides first hand views as to what survivors thought occurred. Still a good read on this complex and mystifying subject that owes a lot of the defeat of the 7th on the strength and coordinated efforts of the Indians, command dysfunctions of the 7th, failed actions by Gibbon, Crooks leaving the field, changed circumstances that forced Custer to attack early and a genuine over optimism by all commands that the Indians would scatter.
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