Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed
Gray, a retired physician and Little Big Horn aficionado, has produced a book intended to be the final word on the events surrounding Custer's final campaign. He does a good job of highlighting the role of Indian scout Boyer, but most of the book slides toward tedium. The last half is an incredible minute-by-half-minute reconstruction of the movements of virtually every person and horse involved in the battle. Reappraisals such as this are of interest mostly to antiquarians who quibble about who-shot-who-from-which-hill. For Western Americana collections; public libraries will still be better off with Evan Connell's lush Son of the Morning Star ( LJ 9/1/84).- Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los AngelesCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.