Custer's Chief of Scouts: The Reminiscences of Charles A. Varnum
John M. Carroll edited and added notes and a preface to this book, which is based on unfinished manuscripts left by Varnum and was originally published asI, Varnum: The Autobiographical Reminiscences of Custer's Chief of Scouts. Carroll, a leading Custer scholar, is director of the Frontier Military Research Center and editor ofThe Black Military Experience in the American West(1974) andGeneral Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn: The Federal View(1985), among other works.